As increasing amounts of sensitive personal information is aggregated into data repositories, it has become important to develop mechanisms for processing the data without revealin...
Improvements to a local modification-based anisotropic mesh adaptation procedure are presented. The first improvement focuses on control of the local operations that modify the mes...
: Information needs like searching scientific literature that involve high recall rates are difficult to satisfy with ad hoc keyword search. We propose to state queries implicitl...
Ranking function performance reached a plateau in 1994. The reason for this is investigated. First the performance of BM25 is measured as the proportion of queries satisfied on th...
Data mining is an interactive and iterative process. Users issue series of similar queries until they receive satisfying results, yet currently available data mining systems do not...