The way memory hierarchy has evolved in recent decades has opened new challenges in the development of indexing structures in general and spatial access methods in particular. In t...
Abstract. In this paper we present an index structure, called MetricMap, that takes a set of objects and a distance metric and then maps those objects to a k-dimensional space in s...
Xiong Wang, Jason Tsong-Li Wang, King-Ip Lin, Denn...
XML documents are typically queried with a combination of value search and structure search. While querying by values can leverage traditional database technologies, evaluating st...
Haifeng Jiang, Hongjun Lu, Wei Wang 0011, Beng Chi...
As more and more structured documents, such as SGML or XML documents become available on the Web, there is a growing demand to develop effective structured document retrieval which...