Without a well formulated and structured question, it can be very difficult and time consuming for physicians to identify appropriate resources and search for the best available ev...
Conventional research on similarity search focuses on measuring the similarity between objects with the same type. However, in many real-world applications, we need to measure the...
Chuan Shi, Xiangnan Kong, Philip S. Yu, Sihong Xie...
Abstract. Database preprocessing in order to create an index often permits considerable speedup in search compared to the iterated query of an unprocessed database. In this paper w...
Background: The Smith-Waterman algorithm for local sequence alignment is more sensitive than heuristic methods for database searching, but also more time-consuming. The fastest ap...
The publication time of a page can have a big impact on its relevance to a query, especially for time-sensitive pages such as news items. For news search engines, the publication ...