Unstructured peer-to-peer networks have become a very popular method for content distribution in the past few years. By not enforcing strict rules on the network’s topology or c...
Brian D. Connelly, Christopher W. Bowron, Li Xiao,...
Ranking information retrieval (IR) systems with respect to their effectiveness is a crucial operation during IR evaluation, as well as during data fusion. This paper offers a no...
Abstract. Rewriting of conjunctive queries using views has many applications in database and data integration. We investigate ways to improve performance of rewriting and propose a...
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
Our ability to generate ever-larger, increasingly-complex data, has established the need for scalable methods that identify, and provide insight into, important variable trends and...
Luke J. Gosink, John C. Anderson, E. Wes Bethel,...