Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...
Comparing and contrasting is an important strategy people employ to understand new situations and create solutions for new problems. Similar events can provide hints for problem s...
Soon, much of the data exchanged over the Internet will be encoded in XML, allowing for sophisticated filtering and content-based routing. We have built a filtering engine called ...
Yanlei Diao, Peter M. Fischer, Michael J. Franklin...
We introduce an interface for efficient video search that exploits the human ability to quickly scan visual content, after automatic retrieval has arrange the images in expected or...
Alexander G. Hauptmann, Wei-Hao Lin, Rong Yan, Jun...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...