Abstract. Accurate selectivity estimations are essential for query optimization decisions where they are typically derived from various kinds of histograms which condense value dis...
Search engine switching describes the voluntarily transition from one Web search engine to another. In this paper we present a study of search engine switching behavior that combi...
Similarity retrieval have been widely used in many practical search applications. A similarity query model can be viewed as a logical combination of a set of similarity predicates....
: The World Wide Web provides access to a great deal of information on a vast array of subjects. A user can begin a search for information by selecting a Web page and following the...
A top-N selection query against a relation is to find the N tuples that satisfy the query condition the best but not necessarily completely. In this paper, we propose a new method ...