When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
Abstract. In the Web environment, rich, diverse sources of heterogeneous and distributed data are ubiquitous. In fact, even the information characterizing a single entity - like, f...
Muhammad Intizar Ali, Reinhard Pichler, Hong Linh ...
Heterogeneous entities or objects are very common and are usually interrelated with each other in many scenarios. For example, typical Web search activities involve multiple types...
Wikipedia infoboxes is an example of a seemingly structured, yet extraordinarily heterogeneous dataset, where any given record has only a tiny fraction of all possible fields. Su...
Music Information Retrieval has a longer history than most people realise, with systems developed in the 1960's. The field has its roots in information retrieval, musicology ...