—As databases increasingly integrate different types of information such as multimedia, spatial, time-series, and scientific data, it becomes necessary to support efficient retri...
Abstract. The Mongue-Elkan method is a general text string comparison method based on an internal character-based similarity measure (e.g. edit distance) combined with a token leve...
Sergio Jimenez, Claudia Becerra, Alexander F. Gelb...
Replicated systems that run over partitionable environments, can exhibit increased availability if isolated partitions are allowed to optimistically continue their execution indep...
Mikael Asplund, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Stefan Beyer,...
Intelligent analysis of heterogeneous data and information sources for efficient decision support presents an interesting yet challenging task in clinical environments. This is par...
Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum, Peter Funk, Nin...
Relevance feedback has been considered as a means of incorporating learning into information retrieval systems for quite sometime now. This paper discusses the research results of...