Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...
In this paper, we evaluate and investigate two main types of relevance feedback algorithms; the Euclidean and the correlation?based approaches. In the first case, we examine heuri...
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...
During the last decade various spatial data structures have been designed and compared against each other, all of them re ecting a dynamic situation with ongoing object insertion a...
For an enterprise to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by electronic commerce it must be able to make decisions about business transactions in near-realtime. In the com...