We study the problem of minimizing the expected cost of binary searching for data where the access cost is not fixed and depends on the last accessed element, such as data stored i...
Gonzalo Navarro, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Eduardo F...
Purpose – This paper2 discusses the new scientific search service Google Scholar (GS). This search engine, intended for searching exclusively scholarly documents, will be descri...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
Background: The variety of DNA microarray formats and datasets presently available offers an unprecedented opportunity to perform insightful comparisons of heterogeneous data. Cro...
Predicting the defects in the next release of a large software system is a very valuable asset for the project manger to plan her resources. In this paper we argue that temporal f...
Abraham Bernstein, Jayalath Ekanayake, Martin Pinz...