Support vector machines (SVMs) have been widely used in multimedia retrieval to learn a concept in order to find the best matches. In such a SVM active learning environment, the ...
Data integration approaches mostly attempt to resolve semantic uncertainty and conflicts between data sources during the data integration process. In some application areas, this...
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...
In many applications, users specify target values for certain attributes, without requiring exact matches to these values in return. Instead, the result to such queries is typical...
A plethora of data sources contain data entities that could be ordered according to a variety of attributes associated with the entities. Such orderings result effectively in a ra...