In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm which discovers rare episodes with a combination of bottomup and top-down scanning schema. The information sharing between bottom-...
A major problem in the field of content-based image retrieval is the lack of a common performance measure which allows the researcher to compare different image retrieval systems ...
Several techniques for database replication using group communication have recently been proposed, namely, the Database State Machine, PostgresR, and the NODO protocol. Although a...
Three join algorithms are evaluated in an environment with distributed main-memory based mediators and data sources. A streamed ship-out join ships bulks of tuples to a mediator ne...
The overwhelming success of the Web as a mechanism for facilitating information retrieval and for conducting business transactions has led to an increase in the deployment of comp...
Bowei Xi, Zhen Liu, Mukund Raghavachari, Cathy H. ...