We present the architecture and a performance assessment of an extensible query optimizer written in Venus. Venus is a general-purpose active-database rule language embedded in C+...
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
Comprehensive exploration of the design space parameters at the system-level is a crucial task to evaluate architectural tradeoffs accounting for both energy and performance const...
William Fornaciari, Donatella Sciuto, Cristina Sil...
When a user is served with a ranked list of relevant documents by the standard document search engines, his search task is usually not over. He has to go through the entire docume...
Measuring the similarity between documents and queries has been extensively studied in information retrieval. However, there are a growing number of tasks that require computing th...