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ICDT
2005
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
The Pipelined Set Cover Problem
Abstract. A classical problem in query optimization is to find the optimal ordering of a set of possibly correlated selections. We provide an ion of this problem as a generalizati...
Kamesh Munagala, Shivnath Babu, Rajeev Motwani, Je...
VLDB
2008
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
A multi-ranker model for adaptive XML searching
The evolution of computing technology suggests that it has become more feasible to offer access to Web information in a ubiquitous way, through various kinds of interaction device...
Ho Lam Lau, Wilfred Ng
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
AI
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Constraint-based optimization and utility elicitation using the minimax decision criterion
In many situations, a set of hard constraints encodes the feasible configurations of some system or product over which multiple users have distinct preferences. However, making su...
Craig Boutilier, Relu Patrascu, Pascal Poupart, Da...
ECCV
2000
Springer
14 years 12 months ago
Learning Over Multiple Temporal Scales in Image Databases
Abstract. The ability to learn from user interaction is an important asset for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. Over short times scales, it enables the integration of ...
Nuno Vasconcelos, Andrew Lippman