A staggering number of multimedia applications are being introduced every day. Yet, the inordinate delays encountered in retrieving multimedia documents make it difficult to use t...
Abstract. Saturation-based calculi such as superposition can be successfully instantiated to decision procedures for many decidable fragments of first-order logic. In case of termi...
We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...
Recent research on skyline queries has attracted much interest in the database and data mining community. Given a database, an object belongs to the skyline if it cannot be domina...
Cuiping Li, Anthony K. H. Tung, Wen Jin, Martin Es...
The increasing availability of information about people's context makes it possible to deploy context-sensitive services, where access to resources provided or managed by a s...