We propose and evaluate two indexing schemes for improving the efficiency of data retrieval in high-dimensional databases that are incomplete. These schemes are novel in that the ...
Commercial relational database systems today provide only limited temporal support. To address the needs of applications requiring rich temporal data and queries, we have built TI...
XML documents are extremely verbose since the "schema" is repeated for every "record" in the document. While a variety of compressors are available to address ...
Many new database application domains such as experimental sciences and medicine are characterized by large sequences as their main form of data. Using approximate representation ...
There are abundant scenarios for applications of similarity search in databases where the similarity of objects is defined for a subset of attributes, i.e., in a subspace, only. Wh...
Thomas Bernecker, Tobias Emrich, Franz Graf, Hans-...