We study the stochastic machine replenishment problem, which is a canonical special case of closed multiclass queuing systems in Markov decision theory. The problem models the sche...
We propose a new distributed, fault-tolerant Peer-to-Peer index structure for resource discovery applications called the P-tree. P-trees efficiently support range queries in addit...
Adina Crainiceanu, Prakash Linga, Johannes Gehrke,...
Most of Information Retrieval (IR) systems are still based on bag of word paradigm. This is a strong limitation if one needs high precision answers. For example, in restricted doma...
Organizing textual documents into a hierarchical taxonomy is a common practice in knowledge management. Beside textual features, the hierarchical structure of directories reflect...
Yi Huang, Kai Yu, Matthias Schubert, Shipeng Yu, V...
In this paper, we propose an original indexing by shape of image databases based on extended grid files. We first introduce a recently developed shape description method and tailo...
Carlo Combi, Gian Luca Foresti, Massimo Francesche...