In this paper we propose a novel document retrieval model in which text queries are augmented with multi-dimensional taxonomy restrictions. These restrictions may be relaxed at a ...
Marcus Fontoura, Vanja Josifovski, Ravi Kumar, Chr...
In location-based services, it is common for a user to issue a query based on his/her current position. One such example is "find the available cabs within two miles of my cu...
A variety of web sites and web based services produce textual lists at varying time granularities ranked according to several criteria. For example, Google Trends produces lists o...
The ability to flexibly compose confidence computation with the operations of relational algebra is an important feature of probabilistic database query languages. Computing confi...
Ranking is a fundamental operation in data analysis and decision support, and plays an even more crucial role if the dataset being explored exhibits uncertainty. This has led to m...