—An increasing amount of data produced nowadays is in RDF format. While significant work has been performed on view selection and query optimization algorithms in relational dat...
Content on the Internet is always changing. We explore the value of biasing search result snippets towards new webpage content. We present results from a user study comparing trad...
Krysta Marie Svore, Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais,...
The R*-tree, as a state-of-the-art spatial index, has already found its way into commercial systems like Oracle. In this paper, we aim at improving query performance of the R*tree...
In the sponsored search model, search engines are paid by businesses that are interested in displaying ads for their site alongside the search results. Businesses bid for keywords...
In this poster we introduce ProThes, a pilot meta-search engine (MSE) for a specific application domain. ProThes combines three approaches: meta-search, graphical user interface (...