In many applications, users specify target values for certain attributes, without requiring exact matches to these values in return. Instead, the result to such queries is typical...
Query ambiguity is a generally recognized problem, particularly in Web environments where queries are commonly only one or two words in length. In this study, we explore one techn...
Current crawler-based search engines usually return a long list of search results containing a lot of noise documents. By indexing collected documents on topic path in taxonomy, t...
An adaptive, highly scalable, and robust web caching system is needed to effectively handle the exponential growth and extreme dynamic environment of the World Wide Web. Our work ...
B. Scott Michel, Khoi Nguyen, Adam Rosenstein, Lix...
In this paper, we investigate the problem of answering top-k queries via materialized views. We provide theoretical guarantees for the adequacy of a view to answer a top-k query, ...