Given a query iris image, the goal of indexing is to identify and retrieve a small subset of candidate irides from the database in order to determine a possible match. This can si...
Evaluation of twig queries over probabilistic XML is investigated. Projection is allowed and, in particular, a query may be Boolean. It is shown that for a well-known model of pro...
Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems are attracting increasing attention as an efficient means of sharing data among large, diverse and dynamic sets of users. The widespread use of XML as a...
Object-oriented and object-relational DBMS support setvalued attributes, which are a natural and concise way to model complex information. However, there has been limited research...
An -appro ximate quantile summary of a sequence of N elements is a data structure that can answer quantile queries about the sequence to within a precision of N. We presen t a new...