Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
Information extraction systems have been dealt with at length from the viewpoint of users posing definite questions whose expected answer is to be found in a document collection. T...
The DWS (Data Warehouse Striping) technique is a round-robin data partitioning approach especially designed for distributed data warehousing environments. In DWS the fact tables ar...
Jorge Vieira, Marco Vieira, Marco Costa, Henrique ...
Images are amongst the most widely proliferated form of digital information due to affordable imaging technologies and the Web. In such an environment, the use of digital watermar...
Adaptive query processing is of utmost importance for the scalability of data stream processing systems due to the long-running queries and fluctuating stream characteristics. An...