Consistent query answering is the term commonly used for the problem of answering queries on databases that violate certain integrity constraints. We address this problem for univ...
We review the notion of hypertree width, a measure of the degree of cyclicity of hypergraphs that is useful for identifying and solving efficiently easy instances of hard problems...
This tutorial provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of general techniques to efficiently support similarity queries in spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and multimedi...
In many systems, sensors are used to acquire information from external environments such as temperature, pressure and locations. Due to continuous changes in these values, and lim...
We have investigated the performance of a hidden Markov model QBH retrieval system on a large musical database. The database is synthetic, generated from statistics gleaned from o...