Static index pruning techniques aim at removing from the posting lists of an inverted file the references to documents which are likely to be not relevant for answering user querie...
The rise of smartphones equipped with various sensors has enabled personalization of various applications based on user contexts extracted from sensor readings. At the same time i...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
SQL in the IBM® DB2® Universal Database™ for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows® (DB2 UDB) database management product has been extended to support nested INSERT, UPDATE, and DELET...
The Iceberg SemiJoin (ISJ) of two datasets R and S returns the tuples in R which join with at least k tuples of S. The ISJ operator is essential in many practical applications incl...
Mohammed Kasim Imthiyaz, Dong Xiaoan, Panos Kalnis