We introduce the Multi-Structural Database, a new data framework to support efficient analysis of large, complex data sets. An instance of the model consists of a set of data obje...
Ronald Fagin, Ramanathan V. Guha, Ravi Kumar, Jasm...
Similarity search has been proved suitable for searching in very large collections of unstructured data objects. We are interested in efficient parallel query processing under si...
Saving the internal data of an application in an external form is called marshalling. A generic marshaller is difficult to optimize because the format of the data that will be mars...
Baris Aktemur, Joel Jones, Samuel N. Kamin, Lars C...
Emergent Semantics is a new paradigm for inferring semantic meaning from implicit feedback by a sufficiently large number of users of an object retrieval system. In this paper, we ...
The M-tree is a paged, dynamically balanced metric access method that responds gracefully to the insertion of new objects. Like many spatial access methods, the M-tree's perfo...