We study two fundamental static data structure problems, membership and perfect hashing, in Yao's cell probe model. The first space and bit probe optimal worst case upper bou...
Query optimizers that explore a search space exhaustively using transformation rules usually apply all possible rules on each alternative, and stop when no new information is prod...
In content-based retrieval, relevance feedback (RF) is a noticeable method for reducing the “semantic gap” between the low-level features describing the content and the usually...
Michel Crucianu, Daniel Estevez, Vincent Oria, Jea...
The use of ontologies in various application domains, such as Data Integration, the Semantic Web, or ontology-based data management, where ontologies provide the access to large am...
Alessandro Artale, Diego Calvanese, Roman Kontchak...
Topological relationships like overlap, inside, meet, and disjoint uniquely characterize the relative position between objects in space. For a long time, they have been a focus of...