Sciweavers

1101 search results - page 204 / 221
» Fault-Tolerance in Distributed Query Processing
Sort
View
VLDB
1997
ACM
97views Database» more  VLDB 1997»
15 years 1 months ago
The Complexity of Transformation-Based Join Enumeration
Query optimizers that explore a search space exhaustively using transformation rules usually apply all possible rules on each alternative, and stop when no new information is prod...
Arjan Pellenkoft, César A. Galindo-Legaria,...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Context-aware ranking in web search
The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...
Biao Xiang, Daxin Jiang, Jian Pei, Xiaohui Sun, En...
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Evaluation by comparing result sets in context
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
Paul Thomas, David Hawking
CIKM
2006
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
BMCBI
2010
151views more  BMCBI 2010»
14 years 9 months ago
Using diffusion distances for flexible molecular shape comparison
Background: Many molecules are flexible and undergo significant shape deformation as part of their function, and yet most existing molecular shape comparison (MSC) methods treat t...
Yu-Shen Liu, Qi Li, Guo-Qin Zheng, Karthik Ramani,...