Result diversity is a topic of great importance as more facets of queries are discovered and users expect to find their desired facets in the first page of the results. However,...
: The k nearest neighbor classification (k-NN) is a very simple and popular method for classification. However, it suffers from a major drawback, it assumes constant local class po...
Time-oriented progress estimation for parallel queries is a challenging problem that has received only limited attention. In this paper, we present ParaTimer, a new type of timere...
Background: Many commonly used genome browsers display sequence annotations and related attributes as horizontal data tracks that can be toggled on and off according to user prefe...
Mary E. Dolan, Constance C. Holden, M. Kate Beard,...
: We consider the problem of collaborative Web search and query routing strategies in a peer-to-peer (P2P) environment. In our architecture every peer has a full-fledged search en...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard Weikum,...