In this paper we present a general framework to study sequences of search activities performed by a user. Our framework provides (i) a vocabulary to discuss types of features, mod...
Qiaozhu Mei, Kristina Klinkner, Ravi Kumar, Andrew...
Nearest neighbor search in high dimensional spaces is an interesting and important problem which is relevant for a wide variety of novel database applications. As recent results s...
Alexander Hinneburg, Charu C. Aggarwal, Daniel A. ...
We describe an evaluation of result set filtering techniques for providing ultra-high precision in the task of presenting related news for general web queries. In this task, the n...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
Keyword search is a familiar and potentially effective way to find information of interest that is "locked" inside relational databases. Current work has generally assum...
Mayssam Sayyadian, Hieu LeKhac, AnHai Doan, Luis G...
Scatter search is an evolutionary method that has been successfully applied to hard optimization problems. The fundamental concepts and principles of the method were first propose...