Let be a finite, ordered alphabet, and consider a string x = x1x2 . . . xn n . A secondary index for x answers alphabet range queries of the form: Given a range [al, ar] , retu...
We introduce a new causal hierarchical belief network for image segmentation. Contrary to classical tree structured (or pyramidal) models, the factor graph of the network contains...
This paper considers the problem of adding list as a type constructor to an object-oriented data model. In particular, we are concerned with how lists in a database can be constru...
Sharing huge, massively distributed databases in P2P systems is inherently difficult. As the amount of stored data increases, data localization techniques become no longer suffi...
Rabab Hayek, Guillaume Raschia, Patrick Valduriez,...
With recent advances in wireless communication and position technologies, it became possible to collect and record trajectories of moving objects. Thus, many services in road netw...
Xu Jianqiu, Victor Teixeira de Almeida, Qin Xiaoli...