— Accurate query performance prediction (QPP) is central to effective resource management, query optimization and query scheduling. Analytical cost models, used in current genera...
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
This paper describes a novel approach to the presentation of results from web-search by utilizing the semantic correlations amongst the retrieved results as well as their spatio-t...
Rahul Singh, Ya-Wen Hsu, Wen-Cheng Sun, Dil Chitau...
As semantic markup becomes ubiquitous, it will become important to be able to ask queries and obtain answers, using natural language (NL) expressions, rather than the keyword-based...
We explore the implications of supporting bags (i.e. multisets) in a data model and associated query language, and present some formal results concerned with the algebraic propert...