Many have speculated that classifying web pages can improve a search engine's ranking of results. Intuitively results should be more relevant when they match the class of a q...
Paul N. Bennett, Krysta Marie Svore, Susan T. Duma...
Many state-of-the-art selectivity estimation methods use query feedback to maintain histogram buckets, thereby using the limited memory efficiently. However, they are "reacti...
The work described here initially formed part of a triangulation exercise to establish the effectiveness of the Query Term Order algorithm. The methodology produced subsequently p...
The issue of ®nding similar 3-D surface segments arises in many recent applications of spatial database systems, such as molecular biology, medical imaging, CAD, and geographic i...
Users often do not require a complete answer to their query but rather only a sample. They expect the sample to be either the largest possible or the most representative (or both)...