Spatial objects other than points and boxes can be stored in spatial indexes, but the techniques usually require the use of approximations that can be arbitrarily bad. This leads ...
A number of problems in computer science can be solved efficiently with the so called memory based or kernel methods. Among this problems (relevant to the AI community) are multime...
This paper discusses the feasibility of peer-to-peer full-text keyword search of the Web. Two classes of keyword search techniques are in use or have been proposed: flooding of q...
Jinyang Li, Boon Thau Loo, Joseph M. Hellerstein, ...
Abstract. Database preprocessing in order to create an index often permits considerable speedup in search compared to the iterated query of an unprocessed database. In this paper w...
Index structures are designed to optimize search performance, while at the same time supporting efficient data updates. Although not explicit, existing index structures are typica...