Most search systems for querying large document collections---for example, web search engines---are based on well-understood information retrieval principles
Directions search returns the shortest path from a source to a destination on a road network. However, the search interests of users may be exposed to the service providers, thus r...
Ken C. K. Lee, Wang-Chien Lee, Hong Va Leong, Baih...
: A broad variety of data is available in distinct heterogeneous sources, stored under different formats: database formats (in relational and object-oriented models), document form...
P2P deployments are a natural infrastructure for building distributed search networks. Proposed systems support locating and retrieving all results, but lack the information necess...
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Ruggero Morselli, Bobby Bhat...
This thesis investigates application of clustering to multi-criteria ratings as a method of improving the precision of top-N recommendations. With the advent of ecommerce sites th...