We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...
Because of the increasing number of electronic data, designing efficient tools to retrieve and exploit documents is a major challenge. Current search engines suffer from two main d...
Sylvie Ranwez, Vincent Ranwez, Mohameth-Fran&ccedi...
While there are many proposals for spatio-temporal data models and query languages, there is a lack of research into application development using spatio-temporal database systems....
Tony Griffiths, Norman W. Paton, Alvaro A. A. Fern...
A new language and inference algorithm for stochastic modeling is presented. This work refines and generalizes the stochastic functional language originally proposed by [1]. The l...
The current SQL standard for access control is coarse grained, in that it grants access to all rows of a table or none. Fine-grained access control, which allows control of access...
Govind Kabra, Ravishankar Ramamurthy, S. Sudarshan