Metric access methods (MAMs), such as the M-tree, are powerful index structures for supporting ty queries on metric spaces, which represent a common abstraction for those searchin...
In this paper, we study the cheap control problem and determine what some of the inherent system limitations are in achieving high performance for LTI systems. In particular, we ob...
A taxonomy-based source consists of a taxonomy and a database storing objects that are indexed in terms of the taxonomy. For this kind of sources, we describe a flexible interacti...
Given k sorted arrays, the t-Threshold problem, which is motivated by indexed search engines, consists of finding the elements which are present in at least t of the arrays. We pr...
In this paper we report our research on building WebSail { an intelligent web search engine that is able to perform real-time adaptive learning. WebSail learns from the user'...
Zhixiang Chen, Xiannong Meng, Binhai Zhu, Richard ...