Spatial query execution is an essential functionality of a sensor network, where a query gathers sensor data within a specific geographic region. Redundancy within a sensor networ...
It has been shown that using phrases properly in the document retrieval leads to higher retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we define four types of noun phrases and present an...
Wei Zhang, Shuang Liu, Clement T. Yu, Chaojing Sun...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
The paper concerns failing queries in incomplete Distributed Autonomous Information Systems (DAIS) based on attributes which are hierarchical and which semantics at different site...
Zbigniew W. Ras, Agnieszka Dardzinska, Osman G&uum...
The Internet provides a wealth of useful information in a vast number of dynamic information sources, but it is difficult to determine which sources are useful for a given query. ...