— This paper proposes CUP, a protocol for performing Controlled Update Propagation to maintain caches of metadata in peer-to-peer networks. To moderate propagation without imposi...
We explore the utility of different types of topic models for retrieval purposes. Based on prior work, we describe several ways that topic models can be integrated into the retrie...
The computational power needed for searching exponentially growing databases, such as GenBank, has increased dramatically. Three different implementations of the most widely used ...
Skyline queries have attracted considerable attention over the last few years, mainly due to their ability to return interesting objects without the need for user-defined scoring f...
XML documents are normally stored as plain text files. Hence, the natural and most convenient way to update XML documents is to simply edit the text files. But efficient query eva...
Barbara Catania, Wen Qiang Wang, Beng Chin Ooi, Xi...