As online social networking emerges, there has been increased interest to utilize the underlying social structure as well as the available social information to improve search. In...
Gautam Das, Nick Koudas, Manos Papagelis, Sushruth...
Abstract. The following paper describes recent work on NED-2, an intelligent information system for ecosystem management currently in development by the USDA Forest Service. Using ...
Frederick Maier, Donald Nute, Walter D. Potter, Ji...
Most software applications use a relational database for data management and storage. Interaction with such a database is often done by letting the program construct strings with ...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
Representation of relative spatial relations between objects is required in many multimedia database applications. Quantitative representation of spatial relations taking into acc...