Modern applications requiring spatial network processing pose many interesting query optimization challenges. In many cases, query processing depends on the corresponding graph si...
Eleftherios Tiakas, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Ale...
Sensor networks are often used to perform monitoring tasks, such as animal and vehicle tracking, or the surveillance of enemy forces in military applications. In this paper we int...
Abstract Traditional nearest-neighbor (NN) search is based on two basic indexing approaches: object-based indexing and solution-based indexing. The former is constructed based on t...
Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...