Query optimizers that explore a search space exhaustively using transformation rules usually apply all possible rules on each alternative, and stop when no new information is prod...
In the near future, mobile devices are expected to have a storage capacity comparable to today's desktop machines. As the amount of infomation grows, conventional search tool...
Abstract. Online advertising has been suffering serious click fraud problem. Fraudulent publishers can generate false clicks using malicious scripts embedded in their web pages. Ev...
Yanlin Peng, Linfeng Zhang, J. Morris Chang, Yong ...
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
This paper revisits the analysis of annotation propagation from source databases to views defined in terms of conjunctive (SPJ) queries. Given a source database D, an SPJ query Q,...