We study the problem of generating e cient, equivalent rewritings using views to compute the answer to a query. We take the closed-world assumption, in which views are materialize...
The recent enormous increase in the use of networked information access and on-line databases has led to more databases being available in languages other than English. The Center...
In this paper, we consider the task of automatic handwritten mail classification and we investigate the relation between the transcription rate and the classification rate. Severa...
Resource discovery is a problem common to almost all distributed systems. Instead of resulting in a one or a small number of discovery mechanisms, completely different and incompa...
Gene and protein names follow few, if any, true naming conventions and are subject to great variation in different occurrences of the same name. This gives rise to two important p...