Finding all the occurrences of a twig pattern in an XML database is a core operation for efficient evaluation of XML queries. Recently, Lu et al. [7] proposed the TJFast algorithm ...
Navigational queries on Web-accessible life science sources pose unique query optimization challenges. The objects in these sources are interconnected to objects in other sources, ...
Jens Bleiholder, Samir Khuller, Felix Naumann, Lou...
Because of the growing use of multimedia content over Internet, Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has recently received a lot of interest. While accurate search techniques base...
We study the problem of approximately answering aggregation queries using sampling. We observe that uniform sampling performs poorly when the distribution of the aggregated attrib...
A method for color indexing is proposed that is based upon nonparametric statistical techniques. Nonparametrics compare the ordinal rankings of sample populations, and maintain the...