Many existing indexes on text work at the document granularity and are not effective in answering the class of queries where the desired answer is only a term or a phrase. In this...
With new technology, people can share information about everyday places they go; the resulting data helps others find and evaluate places. Recent applications like Dodgeball and S...
Pamela J. Ludford, Reid Priedhorsky, Ken Reily, Lo...
The need to manage diverse information sources has triggered the rise of very loosely structured data models, known as "dataspace models." Such information management sy...
George H. L. Fletcher, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk V...
Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...
Dataspace management has been recently identified as a new agenda for information management [17, 22] and information integration [23]. In sharp contrast to standard information ...
Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Jens-Peter Dittrich, Sh...