Nowadays, as there is an increasing need to integrate the DBMS (for structured data) with Information Retrieval (IR) features (for unstructured data), DB-IR integration becomes one...
Virtual Private Network Design is the following NP-hard problem. We are given a communication network, represented as a weighted graph with thresholds on the nodes which represent...
Friedrich Eisenbrand, Fabrizio Grandoni, Gianpaolo...
Beginning to create the New Oxford English Dictionary database has resulted in the realization that databases for reference texts are unlike those for conventional enterprises. Wh...
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...
Voting trees describe an iterative procedure for selecting a single vertex from a tournament. vide a very general abstract model of decision-making among a group of individuals, a...
Felix A. Fischer, Ariel D. Procaccia, Alex Samorod...