Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) require e cient information retrieval and updating in a dynamic environment at di erent geographical scales. ATIS applications are use...
In interactive question answering (QA), users and systems take turns to ask questions and provide answers. In such an interactive setting, user questions largely depend on the ans...
We study the notion of regret ratio proposed in [19] to deal with multi-criteria decision making in database systems. The regret minimization query proposed in [19] was shown to h...
Danupon Nanongkai, Ashwin Lall, Atish Das Sarma, K...
an be used to abstract away from the physical reality by describing it as components that exist in discrete states with probabilistically invoked actions that change the state. The...
Duncan Gillies, David Thornley, Chatschik Bisdikia...
Determining the user intent of Web searches is a difficult problem due to the sparse data available concerning the searcher. In this paper, we examine a method to determine the us...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink