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WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Answering approximate queries over autonomous web databases
To deal with the problem of empty or too little answers returned from a Web database in response to a user query, this paper proposes a novel approach to provide relevant and rank...
Xiangfu Meng, Z. M. Ma, Li Yan
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
A demo search engine for products
Most product search engines today build on models of relevance devised for information retrieval. However, the decision mechanism that underlies the process of buying a product is...
Beibei Li, Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
TKDE
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Personalized Concept-Based Clustering of Search Engine Queries
A major problem of current Web search is that search queries are usually short and ambiguous, and thus are insufficient for specifying the precise user needs. To alleviate this pro...
Kenneth Wai-Ting Leung, Wilfred Ng, Dik Lun Lee
EDBT
2008
ACM
158views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Expressive query specification through form customization
A form-based query interface is usually the preferred means to provide an unsophisticated user access to a database. Not only is such an interface easy to use, requiring no techni...
Magesh Jayapandian, H. V. Jagadish
GI
2001
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Designing QoS and Charging Mechanisms: He who pays the service shapes the design
To accommodate applications with highly variable degrees and categories of Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, a major effort has been invested to overcome the traditional best-...
Anna Bouch, Martina Angela Sasse