Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...
Localized search engines are small-scale systems that index a particular community on the web. They offer several benefits over their large-scale counterparts in that they are rel...
Associative classification has aroused significant attention recently and achieved promising results. In the rule ranking process, the confidence measure is usually used to sort t...
As the amount of textual information available through the World Wide Web grows, there is a growing need for high-precision IR systems that enable a user to nd useful information ...
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With the prevalence of digital cameras, more and more people have considerable digital images on their personal devices. As a result, there are increasing needs to effectively sea...
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