Desktop search is an important part of personal information management (PIM). However, research in this area has been limited by the lack of shareable test collections, making cum...
The amount of multimedia content available online constantly increases, and this leads to problems for users who search for content or similar communities. Users in Flickr often s...
Radu Andrei Negoescu, Brett Adams, Dinh Q. Phung, ...
We present an algorithm that minimizes the expected cost of indirect binary search for data with non-constant access costs, such as disk data. Indirect binary search means that sor...
Eduardo F. Barbosa, Gonzalo Navarro, Ricardo A. Ba...
A skyline query returns a set of objects that are not dominated by other objects. An object is said to dominate another if it is closer to the query than the latter on all factors...
Deepak P, Prasad M. Deshpande, Debapriyo Majumdar,...
Currently in document retrieval there are many algorithms each with different strengths and weakness. There is some difficulty, however, in evaluating the impact of the test quer...