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ICDCS
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Routing Indices For Peer-to-Peer Systems
Finding information in a peer-to-peer system currently requires either a costly and vulnerable central index, or flooding the network with queries. In this paper we introduce the...
Arturo Crespo, Hector Garcia-Molina
VLDB
2001
ACM
138views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
15 years 11 months ago
A Data Warehousing Architecture for Enabling Service Provisioning Process
In this paper we focus on the following problem in information management: given a large collection of recorded information and some knowledge of the process that is generating th...
Yannis Kotidis
ICDT
1995
ACM
79views Database» more  ICDT 1995»
15 years 10 months ago
Optimization Using Tuple Subsumption
A tuple t1 of relation R subsumes tuple t2 of R, with respect to a query Q if for every database, tuple t1 derives all, and possibly more, answers to query Q than derived by tuple ...
Venky Harinarayan, Ashish Gupta
CLEF
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...
ESA
2008
Springer
126views Algorithms» more  ESA 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
Space-Time Tradeoffs for Proximity Searching in Doubling Spaces
Abstract. We consider approximate nearest neighbor searching in metric spaces of constant doubling dimension. More formally, we are given a set S of n points and an error bound &g...
Sunil Arya, David M. Mount, Antoine Vigneron, Jian...