Standing out in a crowd: Selecting attributes for maximum visibility

M Miah, G Das, V Hristidis… - 2008 IEEE 24th …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, there has been significant interest in development of ranking functions and
efficient top-k retrieval algorithms to help users in ad-hoc search and retrieval in databases …

One size does not fit all: Toward user-and query-dependent ranking for web databases

A Telang, C Li, S Chakravarthy - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the emergence of the deep web, searching web databases in domains such as
vehicles, real estate, etc., has become a routine task. One of the problems in this context is …

Answering approximate queries over autonomous web databases

X Meng, ZM Ma, L Yan - … of the 18th international conference on World …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
To deal with the problem of empty or too little answers returned from a Web database in
response to a user query, this paper proposes a novel approach to provide relevant and …

Enhanced geographically typed semantic schema matching

J Partyka, P Parveen, L Khan, B Thuraisingham… - Journal of Web …, 2011 - Elsevier
Resolving semantic heterogeneity across distinct data sources remains a highly relevant
problem in the GIS domain requiring innovative solutions. Our approach, called GSim …

Determining attributes to maximize visibility of objects

M Miah, G Das, V Hristidis… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, there has been significant interest in the development of ranking functions
and efficient top-k retrieval algorithms to help users in ad hoc search and retrieval in …

Fuzzy cardinalities as a basis to cooperative answering

G Smits, O Pivert, A Hadjali - Flexible approaches in data, information and …, 2014 - Springer
Cooperative approaches to relational database querying help users retrieve the tuples that
are the most relevant with respect to their information needs. In this chapter we propose a …

Adaptive query relaxation and top-k result ranking over autonomous web databases

X Meng, X Zhang, Y Tang, C Bi - Knowledge and Information Systems, 2017 - Springer
Internet users may suffer the empty or too little answer problem when they post a strict query
to the Web database. To address this problem, we develop a general framework to enable …

Adaptive query relaxation and result categorization based on data distribution and query context.

X Zhang, X Meng, Y Tang, C Bi - Journal of Information …, 2017 - search.ebscohost.com
To address the empty and/or many answer problem of Web database query, this paper
proposes a general framework to enable automatically query relaxation and result …

[KNYGA][B] Automatic wrapper generation for the extraction of search result records from search engines

H Zhao - 2007 - search.proquest.com
The deep web, which is estimated about 500 times larger than that of the surface web, is
extremely under-utilized. Researchers have been working on various issues towards the …

[PDF][PDF] An ameliorated methodology for ranking the tuple

AA Chikkamannur, SM Handigund - Int J Comput Technol (IJCT), 2015 - academia.edu
Many users searching databases through the web in various domains like vehicles, real
estate, etc. One of the predicament, we observed in this task is ranking the results retrieved …