Abstract—A text filtering system monitors a stream of incoming documents, to identify those that match the interest profiles of its users. The user interests are registered at ...
—With the abundance of location-aware portable devices such as cellphones and PDAs, a new emerging application is to use this pervasive computing platform to learn about the wher...
This paper presents general algorithms for concurrency control in tree-based access methods as well as a recovery protocol and a mechanism for ensuring repeatable read. The algori...
In this paper we present some analysis techniques and indexing strategies aimed to support classification and retrieval of textures using only perceptual features. The goal of thi...
Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Gallo, Salvatore Nic...
—In a traditional keyword-search system over XML data, a user composes a keyword query, submits it to the system, and retrieves relevant answers. In the case where the user has l...