— The database research community has recently recognized the usefulness of skyline query. As an extension of existing database operator, the skyline query is valuable for multi-...
Dalie Sun, Sai Wu, Jianzhong Li, Anthony K. H. Tun...
This paper discusses a novel distributed adaptive algorithm and representation used to construct populations of adaptive Web agents. These InfoSpiders browse networked information ...
We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...
Thesaurus has been widely used in many applications, including information retrieval, natural language processing, and question answering. In this paper, we propose a novel approa...
Zheng Chen, Shengping Liu, Liu Wenyin, Geguang Pu,...
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...