A taxonomy-based source consists of a taxonomy and a database storing objects that are indexed in terms of the taxonomy. For this kind of sources, we describe a flexible interacti...
: The main contribution of this paper is a novel approach for fast searching in huge structural databases like the PDB. The data structure is based on an adaption of the generalize...
Search personalization and diversification are often seen as opposing alternatives to cope with query uncertainty, where, given an ambiguous query, it is either preferable to adap...
In 1998, a Technical Committee 8-04 was formed in CIE/Division 8, "to investigate the state of adaptation of the visual system when comparing soft-copy images on selfluminous...
Indexing XML is crucial for efficient XML query processing. We propose a compact tree (Ctree) for XML indexing, which provides not only concise path summaries at group level but a...