Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...
Complex event detection over data streams has become ubiquitous through the widespread use of sensors, wireless connectivity and the wide variety of end-user mobile devices. Typic...
Panayiotis Neophytou, Mohamed A. Sharaf, Panos K. ...
The non-English Web is growing at breakneck speed, but available language processing tools are mostly English based. Taxonomies are a case in point: while there are plenty of comm...
Xuerui Wang, Andrei Z. Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich...
Answering aggregate queries like sum, count, min, max over regions containing moving objects is often needed for virtual world applications, real-time monitoring systems, etc. Sin...
Recommender systems aim to substantially reduce information overload by suggesting lists of similar items that users may find interesting. Caching has been a useful technique for...
Umar Qasim, Vincent Oria, Yi-fang Brook Wu, Michae...