Efficient user-adaptable similarity search more and more increases in its importance for multimedia and spatial database systems. As a general similarity model for multi-dimension...
Information management applications exhibit a wide range of query performance and result freshness goals. Some applications, such as web search, require interactive performance, b...
Kimberly Keeton, Charles B. Morrey III, Craig A. N...
The I/O performance of query processing can be improved using two complementary approaches. One can try to improve on the buffer and the file system management policies of the DB ...
Automatically translating natural language into machine-readable instructions is one of major interesting and challenging tasks in Natural Language (NL) Processing. This problem c...
The Internet provides a wealth of useful information in a vast number of dynamic information sources, but it is difficult to determine which sources are useful for a given query. ...