The study of creativity has received significant attention over the past century, with a recent increase in interest in collaborative, distributed creativity. We posit that creati...
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised approach to query segmentation, an important task in Web search. We use a generative query model to recover a query's underlyin...
The increasing amount of communication between individuals in e-formats (e.g. email, Instant messaging and the Web) has motivated computational research in social network analysis...
Ding Zhou, Eren Manavoglu, Jia Li, C. Lee Giles, H...
Nowadays the 2-Phase-Locking (2PL) concurrency control algorithm still plays a core rule in the construction of transactional systems (e.g. database systems and transactional memo...
Pierangelo di Sanzo, Roberto Palmieri, Bruno Cicia...