For probabilistic reasoning, one often needs to sample from a combinatorial space. For example, one may need to sample uniformly from the space of all satisfying assignments. Can ...
Resource discovery in a distributed digital library poses many challenges, one of which is how to choose search engines for query distribution, given a query and a set of search e...
The present study demonstrates how the emotional content of search terms and their eventual results affects the breadth of a users' search for information. We observed the qu...
While small-scale search engines in specific domains and languages are increasingly used by Web users, most existing search engine development tools do not support the development...
Michael Chau, Jialun Qin, Yilu Zhou, Chunju Tseng,...
—Data compression techniques such as null suppression and dictionary compression are commonly used in today’s database systems. In order to effectively leverage compression, it...
Stratos Idreos, Raghav Kaushik, Vivek R. Narasayya...