: Problem statement: For a sensor network comprising autonomous and self-organizing data sources, efficient similarity-based search for semantic-rich resources (such as video data)...
How does the web search behavior of “rich” and “poor” people differ? Do men and women tend to click on different results for the same query? What are some queries almost...
Keyword-based search engines, though hugely popular, are limited when trying to answer very specific queries. The processing of search results is performed by users, rather than th...
Ian Blacoe, Ignazio Palmisano, Valentina A. M. Tam...
Recent work in data integration has shown the importance of statistical information about the coverage and overlap of data sources for efficient query processing. Gathering and s...
Data cubes for OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) often need to be constructed from data located in several distributed and autonomous information sources. Such a data integratio...