Current data repositories include a variety of data types, including audio, images and time series. State of the art techniques for indexing such data and doing query processing r...
Answering performance to business queries, mainly of aggregated nature, known as On-Line Analytical Processing queries, depends heavily on the proper selection of multidimensional ...
Modeling term dependence has been shown to have a significant positive impact on retrieval. Current models, however, use sequential term dependencies, leading to an increased que...
In an uncertain data set S = (S, p, f) where S is the ground set consisting of n elements, p : S → [0, 1] a probability function, and f : S → R a score function, each element i...
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is becoming the de facto standard for exchanging information over the Internet, which results in the proliferation of XML documents. This has led ...