A large number of computer tasks can be modeled as the search for an object near a given query. From multimedia databases to learning algorithms, data mining and pattern recognitio...
Applications such as audio fingerprinting require search in high dimensions: find an item in a database that is similar to a query. An important property of this search task is t...
Jonathan Goldstein, John C. Platt, Christopher J. ...
We consider the problem of wide-area large-scale text search over a peer-to-peer infrastructure. A wide-area search infrastructure with billions of documents and millions of searc...
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Peter J...
Structural join operations are central to evaluating queries against XML data, and are typically responsible for consuming a lion's share of the query processing time. Thus, ...
We consider the scenario where existing relational data is exported as XML. In this context, we look at the problem of translating XML queries into SQL. XML query languages have t...