As online social networking emerges, there has been increased interest to utilize the underlying social structure as well as the available social information to improve search. In...
Gautam Das, Nick Koudas, Manos Papagelis, Sushruth...
Developing high-quality information extraction (IE) rules, or extractors, is an iterative and primarily manual process, extremely time consuming, and error prone. In each iteratio...
Bin Liu 0002, Laura Chiticariu, Vivian Chu, H. V. ...
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second on billions of pages, making query processing a major factor in their operating costs. This has led to a lot of resear...
— While structured P2P systems (such as DHTs) are often regarded as an improvement over unstructured P2P systems (such as super-peer networks) in terms of routing efficiency, it...
Yong Yang, Rocky Dunlap, Mike Rexroad, Brian F. Co...
Suppose that we are given a set of n elements d of which are “defective”. A group test can check for any subset, called a pool, whether it contains a defective. It is well know...