nt formal speci cations of a new abstraction, weak sets, which can be used to alleviate high latencies when retrieving data from a wide-area information system like the World Wide...
Current search technologies work in "one size fits all" fashion. Therefore, the answer to a query is independent of specific user information need. In this paper, we des...
Online Scientific Applications (OSA) require statistical analysis of large multidimensional datasets. Towards this end, we have designed and developed a data storage and retrieval...
Searching for similar objects in metric-space databases can be efficiently solved by using index data structures. A number of alternative sequential indexes have been proposed in...
An important factor for discriminating between webpages is their genre (e.g., blogs, personal homepages, e-shops, online newspapers, etc). Webpage genre identification has a great...