Information integration and retrieval are useful tasks in many information systems. In these systems, it is far from an easy task to directly integrate information from natural lan...
Managing, searching and mining uncertain data has achieved much attention in the database community recently due to new sensor technologies and new ways of collecting data. There ...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
Accurately and effectively detecting the locations where search queries are truly about has huge potential impact on increasing search relevance. In this paper, we define a search...
Lee Wang, Chuang Wang, Xing Xie, Josh Forman, Yans...
Time synchronization in highly distributed wireless systems like sensor and ad hoc networks is extremely important in order to maintain a consistent notion of time throughout the ...
Murtuza Jadliwala, Qi Duan, Shambhu J. Upadhyaya, ...