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ICEIS
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Creation and Maintenance of Query Expansion Rules
In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
Stefania Castellani, Aaron N. Kaplan, Fréd&...
ICDE
2006
IEEE
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16 years 6 months ago
A Sampling-Based Approach to Optimizing Top-k Queries in Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks generate a vast amount of data. This data, however, must be sparingly extracted to conserve energy, usually the most precious resource in battery-powered ...
Adam Silberstein, Carla Schlatter Ellis, Jun Yang ...
GIS
2007
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Proximity queries in large traffic networks
In this paper, we present an original network graph embedding to speed-up distance-range and k-nearest neighbor queries in (weighted) graphs. Our approach implements the paradigm ...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Renz, Peer Kröge...
CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Private Buddy Search: Enabling Private Spatial Queries in Social Networks
—With the abundance of location-aware portable devices such as cellphones and PDAs, a new emerging application is to use this pervasive computing platform to learn about the wher...
Ali Khoshgozaran, Cyrus Shahabi
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Characterizing the usability of interactive applications through query log analysis
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...
Adam Fourney, Richard Mann, Michael Terry