We consider the retrieval of XML-structured documents, and of passages from such documents, defined as elements of the XML structure. These are considered from the point of view of...
OLAP applications use precomputation of aggregate data to improve query response time. While this problem has been well-studied in the recent database literature, to our knowledge ...
Amit Shukla, Prasad Deshpande, Jeffrey F. Naughton
—Effective image retrieval by content from database requires that visual image properties are used instead of textual labels to properly index and recover pictorial data. Retriev...
A new access method, called M-tree, is proposed to organize and search large data sets from a generic "metric space", i.e. where object proximity is only defined by a di...
In the resource over-constrained environment of sensor networks, techniques for storing data locally in sensor nodes have been proposed to support efficient processing of adhoc qu...
Mohamed Aly, Nicholas Morsillo, Panos K. Chrysanth...