The blogosphere--the totality of blog-related Web sites-has become a great source of trend analysis in areas such as product survey, customer relationship, and marketing. Existing...
A major challenge in developing models for hypertext retrieval is to effectively combine content information with the link structure available in hypertext collections. Although s...
Primary B+ -tree, a variant of B+ -tree structure with row data in leaf blocks, is an ideal storage organization for queries involving exact match and/or range search on primary k...
Social network systems on the Internet, such MySpace and LinkedIn, are growing in popularity around the world. The level of such activity is now comparable to that associated with...
We introduce a new type of diagram called the VV(c)-diagram (the visibility–Voronoi diagram for clearance c), which is a hybrid between the visibility graph and the Voronoi diag...