A top-N selection query against a relation is to find the N tuples that satisfy the query condition the best but not necessarily completely. In this paper, we propose a new method ...
Abstract. Most users of the WWW want their searches to be effective. Currently, there exists a wide variety of efficient syntactic tools that have can be used for search in the WWW...
Katia Wechsler, Jorge A. Baier, Miguel Nussbaum, R...
Selectivity estimation of path expressions in querying XML data plays an important role in query optimization. A path expression may contain multiple branches with predicates, each...
Abstract. Ensemble methods can achieve excellent performance relying on member classifiers’ accuracy and diversity. We conduct an empirical study of the relationship of ensemble...
In distributed computing systems, processes in different hosts take checkpoints to survive failures. For mobile computing systems, due to certain new characteristics conventional d...
This paper presents an architecture and a methodology for agent-based Web service discovery and automated composition. We assume that Web services are described with declarative sp...
Efficient full-text searching is a big challenge in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system. Recently, Distributed Hash Table (DHT) becomes one of the reliable communication schemes for P2P. Som...