Abstract. One of the virtues of XML is that it allows complex structures to be easily expressed. This allows XML to be used as an intermediate, neutral, and standard form for repre...
We first present an algorithm that uses membership and equivalence queries to exactly identify a discretized geometric concept defined by the union of m axis-parallel boxes in d-...
Nader H. Bshouty, Paul W. Goldberg, Sally A. Goldm...
— In location-based, mobile continual query (CQ) systems, two key measures of quality of service (QoS) are: freshness and accuracy. To achieve freshness, the CQ server must perfo...
Query substitution is an important problem in information retrieval. Much work focuses on how to find substitutes for any given query. In this paper, we study how to efficiently ...
In the absence of explicit queries, an alternative is to try to infer users' interests from implicit feedback signals, such as clickstreams or eye tracking. The interests, fo...