To search the web quickly, search engines partition the web index over many machines, and consult every partition when answering a query. To increase throughput, replicas are adde...
Costin Raiciu, Felipe Huici, Mark Handley, David S...
– Keyword search (KWS) over relational data, where the answers are multiple tuples connected via joins, has received significant attention in the past decade. Numerous solutions ...
Akanksha Baid, Ian Rae, AnHai Doan, Jeffrey F. Nau...
Abstract. Defeasible reasoning is a direction in nonmonotonic reasoning that is based on the use of rules that may be defeated by other rules. It is a simple, but often more effic...
Grigoris Antoniou, David Billington, Guido Governa...
Is it possible to use sense inventories to improve Web search results diversity for one word queries? To answer this question, we focus on two broad-coverage lexical resources of ...
Search computing is a novel discipline whose goal is to answer complex, multi-domain queries. Such queries typically require combining in their results domain knowledge extracted ...