Where Information Retrieval (IR) and Text Categorization delivers a set of (ranked) documents according to a query, users of large document collections would rather like to receiv...
Webcams, microphones, pressure gauges and other sensors provide exciting new opportunities for querying and monitoring the physical world. In this paper we focus on querying wide ...
Amol Deshpande, Suman Kumar Nath, Phillip B. Gibbo...
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...
Most database systems allow query processing over attributes that are derived at query runtime (e.g., user-defined functions and remote data calls to web services), making them e...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed E...
: The concept of natural neighbors employs the notion of distance to define local neighborhoods in discrete data. Especially when querying and accessing large scale data, it is im...