The impact of using phrases as content representation for documents and for queries has generally been accepted as a desirable feature in information retrieval systems because phr...
The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies, and their merger, is leading to a global information market place. It will consist of federations of very large numb...
Recent technology advances have enabled mediated query processing with Internet accessible WebSources. A characteristic of WebSources is that their access costs exhibit transient ...
Since navigation systems and tracking devices are becoming ubiquitous in our daily life, the development of efficient methods for processing massive sets of mobile objects are of ...
The class of k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) queries is frequently used in geospatial applications. Many studies focus on processing kNN in Euclidean and road network spaces. Meanwhile, ...