Databases of text and text-annotated data constitute a significant fraction of the information available in electronic form. Searching and browsing are the typical ways that users...
Wisam Dakka, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Kenneth R. W...
The blogosphere--the totality of blog-related Web sites-has become a great source of trend analysis in areas such as product survey, customer relationship, and marketing. Existing...
During concurrent I/O workloads, sequential access to one I/O stream can be interrupted by accesses to other streams in the system. Frequent switching between multiple sequential ...
Chuanpeng Li, Kai Shen, Athanasios E. Papathanasio...
Abstract Traditional nearest-neighbor (NN) search is based on two basic indexing approaches: object-based indexing and solution-based indexing. The former is constructed based on t...
Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
Social media sites (e.g., Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook) are a popular distribution outlet for users looking to share their experiences and interests on the Web. These sites host ...