Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such that the amoun...
The extraction of contours using deformable models, such as snakes, is a problem of great interest in computer vision, particular in areas of medical imaging and tracking. Snakes ...
Akshaya Kumar Mishra, Paul W. Fieguth, David A. Cl...
In this paper, we investigate a problem of predicting what images are likely to appear on the Web at a future time point, given a query word and a database of historical image str...
Poly-Controlled Partial Evaluation (PCPE) is a powerful approach to partial evaluation, which has recently been proposed. PCPE takes into account sets of control strategies instea...