Data integration from multiple autonomous data sources has emerged as an important practical problem. The key requirement for such data integration is that owners of such data nee...
Amr El Abbadi, Aziz Gulbeden, Divyakant Agrawal, F...
Sensor networks and other distributed information systems (such as the Web) must frequently access data that has a high per-attribute acquisition cost, in terms of energy, latency...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Wei Hong, Samuel ...
In information-integration systems, sources may have diverse and limited query capabilities. In this paper we show that because sources have restrictions on retrieving their infor...
We present a new method for relevance feedback in image retrieval and a scheme to learn weighted distances which can be used in combination with different relevance feedback metho...
Enrique Vidal, Hermann Ney, Roberto Paredes, Thoma...
Personal gazetteers record individuals' most important places, such as home, work, grocery store, etc. Using personal gazetteers in location-aware applications offers additio...
Changqing Zhou, Dan Frankowski, Pamela J. Ludford,...