Syndication systems on the Web have attracted vast amounts of attention in recent years. As technologies have emerged and matured, there has been a transition to more expressive s...
Web service technology is one of the trend technologies in computer science now, and recently with the rapid growth of web services deployed with the same functionality, many rese...
In this paper, we study a simple SQL extension that enables query writers to explicitly limit the cardinality of a query result. We examine its impact on the query optimization an...
A data structure, called a biased range tree, is presented that preprocesses a set S of n points in R2 and a query distribution D for 2-sided orthogonal range counting queries. The...
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...