This paper focuses on the optimization of the navigation through voluminous subsumption hierarchies of topics employed by Portal Catalogs like Netscape Open Directory (ODP). We ad...
We present an approach for optimizing the performance of information agents by materializing useful information . A critical problem with information agents, particularly those ga...
—This paper explores the idea of knowledge-based security policies, which are used to decide whether to answer queries over secret data based on an estimation of the querier’s ...
Piotr Mardziel, Stephen Magill, Michael Hicks, Mud...
This paper presents a structure we call XML Wavelet Tree (XWT) to represent any XML document in a compressed and self-indexed form. Therefore, any query or procedure that could be ...
Nieves R. Brisaboa, Ana Cerdeira-Pena, Gonzalo Nav...
We show how (now familiar) hierarchical representations of (convex) polyhedra can be used to answer various separation queries efficiently (in a number of cases, optimally). Our e...