The key idea behind Inspector Joins is that during the I/O partitioning phase of a hash-based join, we have the opportunity to look at the actual data itself and then use this kno...
Shimin Chen, Anastassia Ailamaki, Phillip B. Gibbo...
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...
We have been developing new relevance feedback algorithms for Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) that allow the user to achieve more flexible query. In conjunction with the new...
Munehiro Nakazato, Charlie K. Dagli, Thomas S. Hua...
Abstract. In this paper, we first investigate set semantics of propositional logic in terms of rough sets and discuss how truth values of propositions (sentences) can be interpret...
In some information retrieval scenarios, for example internal help desk systems, texts are entered into the document collection without proofreading. This can result in a relative...