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PVLDB
2008
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15 years 4 days ago
Efficient search for the top-k probable nearest neighbors in uncertain databases
Uncertainty pervades many domains in our lives. Current real-life applications, e.g., location tracking using GPS devices or cell phones, multimedia feature extraction, and sensor...
George Beskales, Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas
SEMWEB
2004
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Top-k Query Evaluation for Schema-Based Peer-to-Peer Networks
Abstract. Increasing the number of peers in a peer-to-peer network usually increases the number of answers to a given query as well. While having more answers is nice in principle,...
Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uwe Thaden, Wolf-Ti...
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WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Searching with context
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...
Reiner Kraft, Chi-Chao Chang, Farzin Maghoul, Ravi...
DAGSTUHL
2004
15 years 2 months ago
Personalization of Queries based on User Preferences
Query Personalization is the process of dynamically enhancing a query with related user preferences stored in a user profile with the aim of providing personalized answers. The und...
Georgia Koutrika, Yannis E. Ioannidis
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FLAIRS
2007
15 years 3 months ago
Finding Data, Knowledge, and Answers on the Semantic Web
Web search engines like Google have made us all smarter by providing ready access to the world's knowledge whenever we need to look up a fact, learn about a topic or evaluate...
Timothy W. Finin, Joel Sachs, Cynthia Sims Parr