Across the world, organizations are required to comply with regulatory frameworks dictating how to manage personal information. Despite these, several cases of data leaks and expo...
Database indices provide a non-discriminative navigational infrastructure to localize tuples of interest. Their maintenance cost is taken during database updates. In this paper, w...
Stratos Idreos, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold
The traditional strategy performed by Information Retrieval (IR) systems is ranked keyword search: for a given query, a list of documents, ordered by relevance, is returned. Releva...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Anna Lisa Genti...
In human-human conversation, people use linguistic expressions that are flexibly tailored to context as a matter of course, and they expect their conversational partners to do lik...
Decision making based on the comparison of multiple criteria of two or more alternatives, is the subject of intensive research. In many decision making situations, a single criter...
Alfons Schuster, Werner Dubitzky, Philippe Lopes, ...