Accurate topical classification of user queries allows for increased effectiveness and efficiency in general-purpose web search systems. Such classification becomes critical if th...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
Skyline queries are important due to their usefulness in many application domains. However, by increasing the number of attributes, the probability that a tuple dominates another ...
Maria Kontaki, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Yannis M...
Given an author-conference graph, how do we answer proximity queries (e.g., what are the most related conferences for John Smith?); how can we tailor the search result if the user...
: In recent years the fusion of multimedia information from multiple real-time sources and databases has become increasingly important because of its practical significance in many...
: We address the question of how to communicate among distributed processes values such as real numbers, continuous functions and geometrical solids with arbitrary precision, yet e...