Database system architectures are undergoing revolutionary changes. Most importantly, algorithms and data are being unified by integrating programming languages with the database ...
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
As online social networking emerges, there has been increased interest to utilize the underlying social structure as well as the available social information to improve search. In...
Gautam Das, Nick Koudas, Manos Papagelis, Sushruth...
The popularity of location-based services and the need to do real-time processing on them has led to an interest in performing queries on transportation networks, such as finding s...
We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...