Queries describe the users' search intent and therefore they play an essential role in the context of ranking for information retrieval and Web search. However, most of exist...
Outlier detection techniques are widely used in many applications such as credit card fraud detection, monitoring criminal activities in electronic commerce, etc. These application...
— Redistricting is the process of dividing a geographic area into districts or zones. This process has been considered in the past as a problem that is computationally too comple...
A significant amount of information is stored in computer systems today, but people are struggling to manage their documents such that the information is easily found. XML is a de...
The recent explosion of on-line information in Digital Libraries and on the World Wide Web has given rise to a number of query-based search engines and manually constructed topica...
Mehran Sahami, Salim Yusufali, Michelle Q. Wang Ba...