Abstract. When you search for information regarding a particular person on the web, a search engine returns many pages. Some of these pages may be for people with the same name. Ho...
The preservation of digital artifacts represents an unanswered challenge for the modern information society: XML and its query languages provide an effective environment to addre...
We consider the problem of efficiently computing weighted proximity best-joins over multiple lists, with applications in information retrieval and extraction. We are given a multi-...
AnHai Doan, Haixun Wang, Hao He, Jun Yang 0001, Ri...
This paper investigates the use of fuzzy logic mechanisms coming from the database community, namely graded inclusions, to model the information retrieval process. In this framewor...
Patrick Bosc, Vincent Claveau, Olivier Pivert, Lau...
In 'Associative Caching' each client computer keeps a copy of its query result sets in its own local database. The purpose is to reduce the size and frequency of queries ...