In vague queries, a user enters a value that represents some real world object and expects as the result the set of database values that represent this real world object even with ...
Raquel Kolitski Stasiu, Carlos A. Heuser, Roberto ...
Abstract. The sharing of content by communities of users (e.g., scientists) in a P2P context remains cumbersome. We argue that main reasons for this is the lack of calculus and alg...
For a given query raised by a specific user, the Query Suggestion technique aims to recommend relevant queries which potentially suit the information needs of that user. Due to th...
People routinely rely on Internet search engines to support their use of interactive systems: they issue queries to learn how to accomplish tasks, troubleshoot problems, and other...
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With large, streamin...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang