As information becomes available in increasing amounts to a wide spectrum of users, the need for a shift towards a more user-centered information access paradigm arises. We develo...
Recent advances in research fields like multimedia and bioinformatics have brought about a new generation of hyper-dimensional databases which can contain hundreds or even thousan...
Nick Koudas, Beng Chin Ooi, Heng Tao Shen, Anthony...
We examine the problem of evaluating selection queries over imprecisely represented objects. Such objects are used either because they are much smaller in size than the precise on...
Real datasets are often large enough to necessitate data compression. Traditional `syntactic' data compression methods treat the table as a large byte string and operate at t...
H. V. Jagadish, Raymond T. Ng, Beng Chin Ooi, Anth...