— Many data-intensive websites use databases that grow much faster than the rate that users access the data. Such growing datasets lead to ever-increasing space and performance o...
One of the problems associated with XML databases is the poor performance of XPath queries. Although this has attracted much attention by the research community, solutions are eith...
The domain of spatiotemporal applications is a treasure trove of new types of data and queries. In this work, the focus is on a spatiotemporal sub-domain, namely the trajectories ...
In this paper, we propose a pseudo-relevance feedback method to deal with the photographic retrieval and medical retrieval tasks of ImageCLEF 2007. The aim of our participation to...
We develop a query algebra that supports efficient assertion retrieval--a natural extension of instance retrieval. The algebra is based on previously developed techniques for index...
Jeffrey Pound, David Toman, Grant E. Weddell, Jiew...