Recent advances in research fields like multimedia and bioinformatics have brought about a new generation of hyper-dimensional databases which can contain hundreds or even thousan...
Nick Koudas, Beng Chin Ooi, Heng Tao Shen, Anthony...
This paper examines how computation can be mapped across the nodes of a distributed search system to effectively utilize available resources. We specifically address computationa...
Larry Huston, Alex Nizhner, Padmanabhan Pillai, Ra...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
We investigate a topic at the interface of machine learning and cognitive science. Human active learning, where learners can actively query the world for information, is contraste...
Rui M. Castro, Charles Kalish, Robert Nowak, Ruich...
In recent years, the data management community has begun to consider situations in which data access is closely tied to network routing and distributed acquisition: examples includ...
Mengmeng Liu, Nicholas E. Taylor, Wenchao Zhou, Za...