Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
Well-designed indices can dramatically improve query performance. Including query workload information can produce indices that yield better overall throughput while balancing the...
In order to deal with the diversified nature of XML documents as well as individual user preferences, we propose a novel Multiodel (MRM), which is able to abstract a spectrum of i...
We consider the problem of releasing a limited public view of a sensitive graph which reveals at least k edges per node. We are motivated by Facebook’s public search listings, w...
Abstract. Web 2.0 applications attract more and more people to express their opinions on the Web in various ways. However, the explosively increasing information in social web site...