Nowadays, structured data such as sales and business forms are stored in data warehouses for decision makers to use. Further, unstructured data such as emails, html texts, images,...
Location information gathered from a variety of sources in the form of sensor data, video streams, human observations, and so on, is often imprecise and uncertain and needs to be ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
Near-duplicate web documents are abundant. Two such documents differ from each other in a very small portion that displays advertisements, for example. Such differences are irrele...
The top web search result is crucial for user satisfaction with the web search experience. We argue that the importance of the relevance at the top position necessitates special h...
Due to the large difference between seek time and transfer time in current disk technology, it is advantageous to perform large I/O using a single sequential access rather than mu...