An ancestry labeling scheme labels the nodes of any tree in such a way that ancestry queries between any two nodes can be answered just by looking at their corresponding labels. T...
The design and maintenance of an aero-engine generates a significant amount of documentation. When designing new engines, engineers must obtain knowledge gained from maintenance o...
Sylvia C. Wong, Richard M. Crowder, Gary B. Wills,...
We propose a mathematical framework for query selection as a mechanism for reducing the cost of constructing information retrieval test collections. In particular, our mathematica...
Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayl...
Searching for people on the Web is one of the most common query types to the web search engines today. However, when a person name is queried, the returned webpages often contain ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Rabia Nuray-Turan, Sharad M...
The Semantic Web is bound to be untrustworthy and inconsistent. In this paper, we present an initial approach for obtaining useful information in such an environment. In particular...