One useful feature that is missing from today’s database systems is an explain capability that enables users to seek clarifications on unexpected query results. There are two t...
In the last decade, spatio-temporal database research focuses on the design of effective and efficient indexing structures in support of location-based queries such as predictive...
XML has already become the de facto standard for specifying and exchanging data on the Web. However, XML is by nature verbose and thus XML documents are usually large in size, a fa...
Wilfred Ng, Wai Yeung Lam, Peter T. Wood, Mark Lev...
Wireless sensor networks offer the potential to span and monitor large geographical areas inexpensively. Sensors, however, have significant power constraint (battery life), makin...
Images on the Web present a major accessibility issue for the visually impaired, mainly because the majority of them do not have proper captions. This paper addresses the problem ...
Luis von Ahn, Shiry Ginosar, Mihir Kedia, Ruoran L...