An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...
We consider the network structure and query processing capabilities of social communities like bookmarks and photo sharing communities such as del.icio.us or flickr. A common fea...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...
Classification fusion combines multiple classifications of data into a single classification solution of greater accuracy. Feature extraction aims to reduce the computational cost ...
Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli, Gerd Kortemeyer, William F...
In order to facilitate query processing, the information contained in data warehouses is typically stored as a set of materialized views. Deciding which views to materialize prese...
Roozbeh Derakhshan, Frank K. H. A. Dehne, Othmar K...