Near-duplicate web documents are abundant. Two such documents differ from each other in a very small portion that displays advertisements, for example. Such differences are irrele...
Opinion finding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially difficult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this pa...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iad...
Abstract. A current challenge in wireless sensor networks is the positioning of sensor nodes for indoor environments without dedicated hardware. Especially in this domain, many app...
Recent announcement of the MSN Direct Service has demonstrated the feasibility and industrial interest in utilizing wireless broadcast for pervasive information services. To suppo...
One of the most important types of query processing in spatial databases and geographic information systems is the spatial join, an operation that selects, from two relations, all...