Users of database applications, especially in the e-commerce domain, often resort to exploratory "trial-and-error" queries since the underlying data space is huge and unf...
Abhijit Kadlag, Amol V. Wanjari, Juliana Freire, J...
Many text databases on the web are "hidden" behind search interfaces, and their documents are only accessible through querying. Search engines typically ignore the conte...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano, Mehran Saha...
Web search queries capture the information need of search engine users. Search engines store these queries in their logs and analyze them to guide their search results. In this wo...
Ioannis Antonellis, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jawed Ka...
Abstract In the Web search process people often think that the hardest work is done by the search engines or by the directories which are entrusted with finding the Web pages. Whi...
Most data-mining techniques seek a single model that optimizes an objective function with respect to the data. In many real-world applications several models will equally optimize...