Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat the geogra...
Subodh Vaid, Christopher B. Jones, Hideo Joho, Mar...
While work in recent years has demonstrated that wavelets can be efficiently used to compress large quantities of data and provide fast and fairly accurate answers to queries, lit...
The identification and processing of similarities in the data play a key role in multiple application scenarios. Several types of similarity-aware operations have been studied in ...
For an enterprise to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by electronic commerce it must be able to make decisions about business transactions in near-realtime. In the com...
In this paper, we study the effects of compression on bitmap indexes. The main operations on the bitmaps during query processing are bitwise logical operations such as AND, OR, N...