Speculative execution of information gathering plans can dramatically reduce the effect of source I/O latencies on overall performance. However, the utility of speculation is clos...
A novel interface system for accessing geospatial data (GeoMIP) has been developed that realizes a user-centered multimodal speech/gesture interface for addressing some of the cri...
Large-scale distributed data management with P2P systems requires the existence of similarity operators for queries as we cannot assume that all users will agree on exactly the sa...
In this paper we will briefly describe the approaches taken by the Cheshire (Berkeley) Group for the CLEF Adhoc-TEL 2009 tasks (Mono and Bilingual retrieval). Recognizing that man...
Query processing over graph-structured data is enjoying a growing number of applications. Keyword search on a graph finds a set of answers, each of which is a substructure of the ...