On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) has shown great success in many industry applications, including sales, marketing, management, financial data analysis, etc. In this paper, w...
Advances in image acquisition and storage technology have led to tremendous growth in very large and detailed image databases. These images, if analyzed, can reveal useful informa...
Spatial database operations are typically performed in two steps. In the filtering step, indexes and the minimum bounding rectangles (MBRs) of the objects are used to quickly dete...
In this paper, we exploit the problem of inferring images’ semantic concepts from community-contributed images and their associated noisy tags. To infer the concepts more accura...
B-trees are the data structure of choice for maintaining searchable data on disk. However, B-trees perform suboptimally ? when keys are long or of variable length, ? when keys are...
Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton, Bradley C...