The processing of k-NN queries has been studied extensively both in a centralized computing environment and in a structured P2P environment. However, the problem over an unstructur...
Bin Wang, Xiaochun Yang, Guoren Wang, Lei Chen 000...
We introduce a new model for learning with membership queries in which queries near the boundary of a target concept may receive incorrect or “don’t care” responses. In part...
Avrim Blum, Prasad Chalasani, Sally A. Goldman, Do...
Recently, there has been growing interest in random sampling from online hidden databases. These databases reside behind form-like web interfaces which allow users to execute sear...
Sensor networks can be viewed as large distributed databases, and SQL-like high-level declarative languages can be used for data and information retrieval. Energy constraints make ...
IR research has a strong tradition of laboratory evaluation of systems. Such research is based on test collections, pre-defined test topics, and standard evaluation metrics. While ...