Enabling soft queries for data retrieval

Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 560-574

  Yu, Hwanjo ^a   Hwang, Seung won ^b   Chang, Kevin Chen Chuan ^c  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Data retrieval; Soft queries

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

DATA RETRIEVAL; ONLINE PROCESSING; SOFT QUERIES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33846928532     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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