The interfaces used by the top Web search engines have changed very little since the early days of Web search. These interfaces follow the traditional model of information retriev...
This paper deals with the evaluation of acyclic Boolean conjunctive queries in relational databases. By well-known results of Yannakakis [1981], this problem is solvable in polynom...
Keyword-based search in relational databases allows users to discover relevant information without knowing the database schema or using complicated queries. However, such searches...
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...
Abstract. Huge amounts of digital visual content are currently available, thus placing a demand for advanced multimedia search engines. The contribution of this paper is the presen...