Workloads that comb through vast amounts of data are gaining importance in the sciences. These workloads consist of "needle in a haystack" queries that are long running ...
Given a set P of products, a set O of customers, and a product p P, a bichromatic reverse skyline query retrieves all the customers in O that do not find any other product in P t...
Xiaobing Wu, Yufei Tao, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Lin...
We examine the issues of combining multiple query representations in a single IR engine. Differing query representations are used to retrieve different documents. Thus, when combi...
Abdur Chowdhury, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen
Many applications need to solve the following problem of approximate string matching: from a collection of strings, how to find those similar to a given string, or the strings in ...
Geographic information retrieval encompasses important tasks including finding the location of a user, and locations relevant to their search queries. Web-based search engines rec...