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PVLDB
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Retrieving Top-k Prestige-Based Relevant Spatial Web Objects
The location-aware keyword query returns ranked objects that are near a query location and that have textual descriptions that match query keywords. This query occurs inherently i...
Xin Cao, Gao Cong, Christian S. Jensen
ISIPTA
2005
IEEE
168views Mathematics» more  ISIPTA 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
Bayesianism Without Priors, Acts Without Consequences
: A generalization of subjective expected utility is presented in which the primitives are a finite set of states of the world, a finite set of strategies available to the decision...
Robert Nau
ACL
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Improving Search Results Quality by Customizing Summary Lengths
Web search engines today typically show results as a list of titles and short snippets that summarize how the retrieved documents are related to the query. However, recent researc...
Michael Kaisser, Marti A. Hearst, John B. Lowe
EDBT
2004
ACM
139views Database» more  EDBT 2004»
14 years 10 months ago
Efficient Distributed Skylining for Web Information Systems
Though skyline queries already have claimed their place in retrieval over central databases, their application in Web information systems up to now was impossible due to the distri...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer, Jason Xin Zh...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Answering approximate queries over autonomous web databases
To deal with the problem of empty or too little answers returned from a Web database in response to a user query, this paper proposes a novel approach to provide relevant and rank...
Xiangfu Meng, Z. M. Ma, Li Yan