Document ranking is well known to be a crucial process in information retrieval (IR). It presents retrieved documents in an order of their estimated degrees of relevance to query. ...
We consider the network structure and query processing capabilities of social communities like bookmarks and photo sharing communities such as del.icio.us or flickr. A common fea...
When similarity queries over multimedia databases are processed by splitting the overall query condition into a set of sub-queries, the problem of how to efficiently and effectiv...
Ilaria Bartolini, Paolo Ciaccia, Vincent Oria, M. ...
Background: The identification of local similarities between two protein structures can provide clues of a common function. Many different methods exist for searching for similar ...
This paper makes two contributions. The first contribution is an approach called the "customized-queries" approach (CQA) to content-based image retrieval. The second is ...
Jennifer G. Dy, Carla E. Brodley, Avinash C. Kak, ...