Abstract With the growing importance of XML in data exchange, much research tends to provide a compact labeling scheme and a flexible query facility to extract data from dynamic XM...
We present a user-centred, task-oriented, comparative evaluation of two query-based document skimming tools. ProfileSkim bases within-document retrieval on computing a relevance pr...
We consider a distributed system where each node keeps a local count for items (similar to elections where nodes are ballot boxes and items are candidates). A top-k query in such ...
We present an efficient pixel-sampling technique for histogram-based search. Given a template image as a query, a typical histogram-based algorithm aims to find the location of ...
Due to the heterogeneous nature of XML data for internet applications exact matching of queries is often inadequate. The need arises to quickly identify subtrees of XML documents ...
Ismael Sanz, Marco Mesiti, Giovanna Guerrini, Rafa...