Design patterns represent solutions to specific problem of developing one application that have evolved over time. They leverage the reuse level to the design phase by providing a...
In web search, recency ranking refers to ranking documents by relevance which takes freshness into account. In this paper, we propose a retrieval system which automatically detect...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, Gilad Mishne,...
Queries with (equality or LIKE) selection predicates over string attributes are widely used in relational databases. However, state-of-the-art techniques for estimating selectivit...
We present a tool for querying a set of points for geometric shapes. This tool was developed as part of a larger project studying the architecture of 13th century French churches....
Kenneth A. Ross, David Vespe, David Hessing, Prana...
This paper introduces an approach to mapping relational database contents to ontologies. The current effort is motivated by the need of including into the Semantic Web volumes of w...