While higher order ambisonic approaches can be used to generate multiple zone soundfields, this paper adopts a Least Squares matching approach which provides a more flexible formu...
The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it di cult to retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way to achieve this integration is by building sp...
Existing approaches for optimizing queries in data integration use decoupled strategies–attempting to optimize coverage and cost in two separate phases. Since sources tend to ha...
Abstract. We study privacy guarantees for the owner of an information system who wants to share some of the information in the system with clients while keeping some other informat...
The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...