The class of k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) queries in spatial networks has been widely studied in the literature. All existing approaches for kNN search in spatial networks assume that ...
Ugur Demiryurek, Farnoush Banaei Kashani, Cyrus Sh...
Maximizing only the relevance between queries and documents will not satisfy users if they want the top search results to present a wide coverage of topics by a few representative...
Yi Liu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Michael R. Lyu, W...
Focused web crawlers have recently emerged as an alternative to the well-established web search engines. While the well-known focused crawlers retrieve relevant webpages, there ar...
Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Schuber...
A new access method, called M-tree, is proposed to organize and search large data sets from a generic "metric space", i.e. where object proximity is only defined by a di...
The Pathfinder project makes inventive use of relational database technology--originally developed to process data of strictly tabular shape--to construct efficient database-suppo...