We present the first prototype of INDUS (Intelligent Data Understanding System), a federated, query-centric system for information integration and knowledge acquisition from dist...
Doina Caragea, Jie Bao, Jyotishman Pathak, Adrian ...
Abstract. When querying XML collections, users cannot always express their need in a precise way. Systems should therefore support vagueness at both the content and structural leve...
Karen Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem, Claude Chrismen...
Abstract. Finding the most accessible locations has a number of applications. For example, a user may want to find an accommodation that is close to different amenities such as s...
Qianlu Lin, Chuan Xiao, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Wei...
Online Scientific Applications (OSA) require statistical analysis of large multidimensional datasets. Towards this end, we have designed and developed a data storage and retrieval...
In standard text retrieval systems, the documents are gathered and indexed on a single server. In distributed information retrieval (DIR), the documents are held in multiple colle...