The increasing importance of search engines to commercial web sites has given rise to a phenomenon we call “web spam”, that is, web pages that exist only to mislead search eng...
Background: Pattern matching is the core of bioinformatics; it is used in database searching, restriction enzyme mapping, and finding open reading frames. It is done repeatedly ov...
Consider multiple users searching for a hotel room, based on size, cost, distance to the beach, etc. Users may have variable preferences expressed by different weights on the attri...
A top-k query combines different rankings of the same set of objects and returns the k objects with the highest combined score according to an aggregate function. We bring to ligh...
Nikos Mamoulis, Kit Hung Cheng, Man Lung Yiu, Davi...
In this paper, we present a space efficient algorithm for speeding up isosurface extraction. Even though there exist algorithms that can achieve optimal search performance to iden...