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Large Expert-Curated Database For Benchmarking Document Similarity Detection In Biomedical Literature Search, Peter Brown, Relish Consortium, Yaoqi Zhou
Large Expert-Curated Database For Benchmarking Document Similarity Detection In Biomedical Literature Search, Peter Brown, Relish Consortium, Yaoqi Zhou
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were …
Topscholar® Brochure, Connie Foster, Jennifer Wilson
Topscholar® Brochure, Connie Foster, Jennifer Wilson
TopSCHOLAR® Presentations and Reports
An updated brochure that gives basic points, contacts, and guidelines for TopSCHOLAR, the research and creative activity database of Western Kentucky University, launched May 1, 2007
On Transformation Of Query Scheduling Strategies In Distributed And Heterogeneous Database Systems, Janusz R. Getta, - Handoko
On Transformation Of Query Scheduling Strategies In Distributed And Heterogeneous Database Systems, Janusz R. Getta, - Handoko
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
This work considers a problem of optimal query processing in heterogeneous and distributed database systems. A global query sub- mitted at a local site is decomposed into a number of queries processed at the remote sites. The partial results returned by the queries are in- tegrated at a local site. The paper addresses a problem of an optimal scheduling of queries that minimizes time spend on data integration of the partial results into the final answer. A global data model defined in this work provides a unified view of the heterogeneous data structures located at the remote sites and a …
Tuning Performance Of E-Business Applications Through Automatic Transformation Of Persistent Database Structures, Janusz R. Getta
Tuning Performance Of E-Business Applications Through Automatic Transformation Of Persistent Database Structures, Janusz R. Getta
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
Performance of e-business applications strongly depends on internal implementations of persistent database structures and on effective algorithms processing these structures. Commercial database systems, which are the basis of e-business applications typically implement logical database structures with one-size-fits-all persistent storage structure. This work investigates a new class of database systems where a conceptual and logical view of a database can be implemented in many different ways depending on the performance requirements of database applications. We consider the improvements to performance of e-business applications through automatic changes of the persistent database structures in the ways indicated by the performance statistics obtained from …
Radiation Damage Of Biomolecules (Radam) Database Development: Current Status, S Denifl, Gustavo Garcia, B A. Huber, B P. Marinkovic, N Mason, J Postler, H Rabus, G Rixon, A V. Solov'yov, E Suraud, A V. Yakubovich
Radiation Damage Of Biomolecules (Radam) Database Development: Current Status, S Denifl, Gustavo Garcia, B A. Huber, B P. Marinkovic, N Mason, J Postler, H Rabus, G Rixon, A V. Solov'yov, E Suraud, A V. Yakubovich
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
Ion beam therapy offers the possibility of excellent dose localization for treatment of malignant tumours, minimizing radiation damage in normal tissue, while maximizing cell killing within the tumour. However, as the underlying dependent physical, chemical and biological processes are too complex to treat them on a purely analytical level, most of our current and future understanding will rely on computer simulations, based on mathematical equations, algorithms and last, but not least, on the available atomic and molecular data. The viability of the simulated output and the success of any computer simulation will be determined by these data, which are treated …
An Image Database Semantically Structured Based On Automatic Image Annotation For Content-Based Image Retrieval, Xuejian Xiong, Kap Luk Chan, Lei Wang
An Image Database Semantically Structured Based On Automatic Image Annotation For Content-Based Image Retrieval, Xuejian Xiong, Kap Luk Chan, Lei Wang
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
In this paper, we presented a semantically structured image database for content-based image retrieval. A class descriptor is proposed to represent each class using a multiprototype model, which can be obtained by using a learning scheme, such as the Unsupervised Optimal Fuzzy Clustering algorithm, on a group of sample images manually selected from the class. Based on the proposed Image-Class Matching Distance, a similarity measure at the semantic level between an image and classes, images can be annotated by tokens of classes. Hence, composite features of images, including low-level descriptors, class descriptors, and image annotation, are stored into a structured …
A Landslide Database For Landslide Hazard Assessment, Robin N. Chowdhury, Phillip N. Flentje
A Landslide Database For Landslide Hazard Assessment, Robin N. Chowdhury, Phillip N. Flentje
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
Assessing the hazard and risk of slope instability and landsliding requires a consideration of basic geological and geotechnical factors which control stability as well as external agents or events which decrease stability and which may trigger landsliding. Prediction of slope performance is difficult and it is, therefore, considered appropriate to develop approaches for hazard and risk assessment. This paper is concerned primarily with one important aspect or element of such an approach. The essential and desirable features of a landslide database are outlined with particular reference to an urban area in New South Wales, Australia. The procedures and processes for …
Nonrecursive Incremental Evaluation Of Datalog Queries, Guozhu Dong, Jianwen Su, Rodney Topor
Nonrecursive Incremental Evaluation Of Datalog Queries, Guozhu Dong, Jianwen Su, Rodney Topor
Kno.e.sis Publications
We consider the problem of repeatedly evaluating the same (computationally expensive) query to a database that is being updated between successive query requests. In this situation, it should be possible to use the difference between successive database states and the answer to the query in one state to reduce the cost of evaluating the query in the next state. We use nonrecursive Datalog (which are unions of conjunctive queries) to compute the differences, and call this process “incremental query evaluation using conjunctive queries”. After formalizing the notion of incremental query evaluation using conjunctive queries, we give an algorithm that constructs, …