Although significant efforts have been devoted to the study and evaluation of information retrieval systems from an algorithmic perspective, far less work has been performed on t...
Ontologies play a key role in Semantic Web research. A common use of ontologies in Semantic Web is to enrich the current Web resources with some well-defined meaning to enhance th...
Gaihua Fu, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty
Although information retrieval research has always been concerned with improving the effectiveness of search, in some applications, such as information analysis, a more specific ...
In this paper, we address a ranking problem in web image retrieval. Due to the growing availability of web images, comprehensive retrieval of web images has been expected. Conventi...
New optimization techniques, e. g., in data stream management systems (DSMSs), make the treatment of disjunctive predicates a necessity. In this paper, we introduce and compare me...