This paper describes a two-stage system for the recognition ge meter values. A feed-forward Neural Abstraction Pyramid is initialized in an unsupervised manner and trained in a sup...
Rank-based fusion is indispensable in multiple search setups in lack of item retrieval scores, such as in meta-search with non-cooperative engines. We introduce a novel, simple, an...
Savvas A. Chatzichristofis, Konstantinos Zagoris, ...
Relational XQuery systems try to re-use mature relational data management infrastructures to create fast and scalable XML database technology. This paper describes the main featur...
Peter A. Boncz, Torsten Grust, Maurice van Keulen,...
The query optimizer of a database system is confronted with two aspects when handling user-defined functions (UDFs) in query predicates: the vast differences in evaluation costs b...
Complex queries over high speed data streams often need to rely on approximations to keep up with their input. The research community has developed a rich literature on approximat...
Theodore Johnson, S. Muthukrishnan, Irina Rozenbau...