Terrain-aided navigation is a database application in which an aeroplane locates itself by matching the height trajectory with a terrain-elevation map on board the aircraft. Witho...
We give the first optimal algorithm for estimating the number of distinct elements in a data stream, closing a long line of theoretical research on this problem begun by Flajolet...
Bitmap indices have been widely used in several domains such as data warehousing and scientific applications due to their efficiency in answering certain query types over large ...
Guadalupe Canahuate, Michael Gibas, Hakan Ferhatos...
Structured data and complex schemas are becoming the main way to represent the information many Digital Libraries provide, thus impacting the services they offer. When searching i...
Humans tend to use high-level semantic concepts when querying and browsing multimedia databases; there is thus, a need for systems that extract these concepts and make available a...