Multiversion two-phase locking (MV2PL) has been incorporated in some commercial transaction processing systems to support the serializable execution of queries. A drawback to this...
Users of text search engines are increasingly wary that their activities may disclose confidential information about their business or personal profiles. It would be desirable f...
The RDF data model is gaining importance for applications in computational biology, knowledge sharing, and social communities. Recent work on RDF engines has focused on scalable p...
Many applications operate on time-sensitive data. Some of these data are only valid for certain intervals (e.g., job-assignments, versions of software code), others describe tempor...
The performance of traditional image retrieval approaches remains unsatisfactory, as they are restricted by the wellknown semantic gap and the diversity of textual semantics. To t...
Chuanghua Gui, Jing Liu, Changsheng Xu, Hanqing Lu