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ECIR
2003
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
From Uncertain Inference to Probability of Relevance for Advanced IR Applications
Uncertain inference is a probabilistic generalisation of the logical view on databases, ranking documents according to their probabilities that they logically imply the query. For ...
Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr
IJCSA
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
Incremental Trade-Off Management for Preference-Based Queries
Preference-based queries often referred to as skyline queries play an important role in cooperative query processing. However, their prohibitive result sizes pose a severe challen...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer, Christoph Lo...
ISCI
2007
133views more  ISCI 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Decision making in fuzzy discrete event systems
The primary goal of the study presented in this paper is to develop a novel and comprehensive approach to decision making using fuzzy discrete event systems (FDES) and to apply su...
Feng Lin, Hao Ying, R. D. MacArthur, J. A. Cohn, D...
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Reducing the risk of query expansion via robust constrained optimization
We introduce a new theoretical derivation, evaluation methods, and extensive empirical analysis for an automatic query expansion framework in which model estimation is cast as a r...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson
BTW
2009
Springer
138views Database» more  BTW 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
GEM: A Generic Visualization and Editing Facility for Heterogeneous Metadata
: Many model management tasks, e.g., schema matching or merging, require the manual handling of metadata. Given the diversity of metadata, its many different representations and mo...
Jürgen Göres, Thomas Jörg, Boris St...