Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...
The number of successful attacks on the Internet shows that it is very difficult to guarantee the security of online search engines. A breached server that is not detected in time...
This paper presents a framework for building and continuously maintaining spatio-temporal histograms (ST-Histograms, for short). ST-Histograms are used for selectivity estimation o...
Hicham G. Elmongui, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Ar...
This demo presents a graphical user interface and ranking system, coined KSpot, for effectively monitoring the K highest-ranked answers to a query Q in a Wireless Sensor Network. K...
We propose a novel approach to shape-based image retrieval that builds upon a similarity criterion which is based on the average point set distance. Compared to traditional techni...