Abstract-- We introduce the novel notion of explanationbased diversification to address the well-known problem of overspecialization in item recommendations. Over-specialization in...
Due to its considerable ease of use, relational keyword search (R-KWS) has become increasingly popular. Its simplicity, however, comes at the cost of intensive query processing. Sp...
Abstract In this paper we present a mechanism for approximately translating Boolean query constraints across heterogeneous information sources. Achieving the best translation is ch...
We consider the problem of approximating sliding window joins over data streams in a data stream processing system with limited resources. In our model, we deal with resource cons...
The problem of finding contained rewritings of queries using views is of great importance in mediated data integration systems. In this paper, we first present a general approach f...