Abstract-- Current twig join algorithms incur high memory costs on queries that involve child-axis nodes. In this paper we provide an analytical explanation for this phenomenon. In...
Many evolving database applications warrant the use of non-traditional indexing mechanisms beyond B+-trees and hash tables. SP-GiST is an extensible indexing framework that broade...
We tackle the difficult problem of summarizing the path/branching structure and value content of an XML database that comprises both numeric and textual values. We introduce a nov...
Query Personalization is the process of dynamically enhancing a query with related user preferences stored in a user profile with the aim of providing personalized answers. The un...
Multi-agent interactions often result in mutual occlusion sequences which constitute a visual signature for the event. We define six qualitative occlusion primitives based on the ...
Amitabha Mukerjee, K. S. Venkatesh, Pabitra Mitra,...