For many data providers, the “crown jewels” of their business are the data that they have organized. If someone could copy their entire database, it would be a competitive cata...
Magesh Jayapandian, Brian D. Noble, James W. Micke...
Abstract— Sensor networks have evolved to a powerful infrastructure component for event monitoring in many application scenarios. In addition to simple filter and aggregation op...
Daniel Klan, Katja Hose, Marcel Karnstedt, Kai-Uwe...
: Can Grover’s algorithm speed up search of a physical region—for example a 2-D grid of size √ n × √ n? The problem is that √ n time seems to be needed for each query, j...
Query expansion by pseudo-relevance feedback is a well-established technique in both mono- and cross- lingual information retrieval, enriching and disambiguating the typically ter...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...