Understanding the intent behind a user's query can help search engine to automatically route the query to some corresponding vertical search engines to obtain particularly re...
Jian Hu, Gang Wang, Frederick H. Lochovsky, Jian-T...
Much of the success of the Internet services model can be attributed to the popularity of a class of workloads that we call Online Data-Intensive (OLDI) services. These workloads ...
David Meisner, Christopher M. Sadler, Luiz Andr&ea...
When we take a picture through a window the image we obtain is often a linear superposition of two images: the image of the scene beyond the window plus the image of the scene ref...
Consider multiple users searching for a hotel room, based on size, cost, distance to the beach, etc. Users may have variable preferences expressed by different weights on the attri...
The explosion of the amount of information available in digital form has made search a hot research topic for the Information Management Community. While most of the research on s...
Ofer Bergman, Richard P. Boardman, Jacek Gwizdka, ...