Keyword search techniques that take advantage of XML structure make it very easy for ordinary users to query XML databases, but current approaches to processing these queries rely...
Traditional models of information retrieval assume documents are independently relevant. But when the goal is retrieving diverse or novel information about a topic, retrieval mode...
A voting system is a set of rules that a community adopts to take collective decisions. In this paper we study voting systems for a particular kind of community: electronically me...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...
XML query languages use directional path expressions to locate data in an XML data collection. They are tightly coupled to the structure of a data collection, and can fail when ev...
Sourav S. Bhowmick, Curtis E. Dyreson, Erwin Leona...
Subgraph patterns are widely used in graph classification, but their effectiveness is often hampered by large number of patterns or lack of discrimination power among individual p...