It has long been recognised that interactivity improves the effectiveness of Information Retrieval systems. Speech is the most natural and interactive medium of communication and ...
The architecture of two-tiered sensor networks, where storage nodes serve as an intermediate tier between sensors and a sink for storing data and processing queries, has been widel...
Given a set of objects and a query q, a point p is
called the reverse k nearest neighbor (RkNN) of q if q is one of
the k closest objects of p. In this paper, we introduce the c...
Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Y...
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...
Abstract-- Many popular Web sites suffer occasional uservisible problems such as slow responses, blank pages or error messages being displayed, items not being added to shopping ca...