Most current XQuery implementations require that all XML data reside in memory in one form or another before they start processing the data. This is unacceptable for large XML doc...
A surrogate is an object that stands for a document and enables navigation to that document. Hypermedia is often represented with textual surrogates, even though studies have show...
Eunyee Koh, Daniel Caruso, Andruid Kerne, Ricardo ...
Many modern database applications require content-based similarity search capability in numeric attribute space. Further, users' notion of similarity varies between search se...
Most data-mining techniques seek a single model that optimizes an objective function with respect to the data. In many real-world applications several models will equally optimize...
A modification of the standard Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm is presented for finding the global minimum of a continuous multidimensional, multimodal function. We report resu...