In the past conversational recommender systems have adopted a similarity-based approach to recommendation, preferring cases that are similar to some user query or profile. Recent ...
Similarity search in metric spaces has several important applications both in centralized and distributed environments. In centralized applications, such as similarity-based image ...
Structured documents, especially the XML documents, are made up of a few logical components, such as title, sections, subsections and paragraphs. The components in each structured...
Three join algorithms are evaluated in an environment with distributed main-memory based mediators and data sources. A streamed ship-out join ships bulks of tuples to a mediator ne...
Abstract. In database marketing, the behavior of customers is analyzed by studying the transactions they have performed. In order to get a global picture of the behavior of a custo...