We consider the problem of large scale retrieval evaluation. Recently two methods based on random sampling were proposed as a solution to the extensive effort required to judge te...
Research on spatial network databases has so far considered that there is a single cost value associated with each road segment of the network. In most real-world situations, howev...
Abstract. Distributed moving object database servers are a feasible solution to the scalability problem of centralized database systems. In this paper we propose a distributed inde...
Parallel database systems have to support the effective parallelization of complex queries in multi-user mode, i.e. in combination with inter-query/inter-transaction parallelism. ...
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...