In this paper, we introduce a geographic similarity operator that computes the relatedness between two geographic places and describe how it is combined with textual ranking. The ...
: We consider the problem of collaborative Web search and query routing strategies in a peer-to-peer (P2P) environment. In our architecture every peer has a full-fledged search en...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard Weikum,...
The World-Wide Web (WWW) is an ever growing, distributed, non-administered, global information resource. It resides on the worldwide computer network and allows access to heteroge...
Spatial relationships are important issues for similarity-based retrieval in many image database applications. With the popularity of digital cameras and the related image process...
Queries issued by casual users or specialists exploring a data set often point us to important subsets of the data, be it clusters, outliers or other features of particular import...