Children are among the most frequent users of the Internet, yet searching and browsing the web can present many challenges. Studies over the past two decades on how children searc...
Allison Druin, Elizabeth Foss, Leshell Hatley, Eva...
Time-series data, which are a series of one-dimensional real numbers, have been studied in various database applications. In this paper, we extend the traditional similarity searc...
Seok-Lyong Lee, Seok-Ju Chun, Deok-Hwan Kim, Ju-Ho...
Query suggestion has been an effective approach to help users narrow down to the information they need. However, most of existing studies focused on only popular/head queries. Si...
In this paper, we address the problem of designing a scalable, accurate query processor for peerto-peer filesharing and similar distributed keyword search systems. Using a global...
Boon Thau Loo, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch...
Personalized information agents can help overcome some of the limitations of communal Web information sources such as portals and search engines. Two important components of these...