We propose a novel approach to shape-based image retrieval that builds upon a similarity criterion which is based on the average point set distance. Compared to traditional techni...
This paper investigates the discovery of conditional functional dependencies (CFDs). CFDs are a recent extension of functional dependencies (FDs) by supporting patterns of semantic...
Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, ...
Self-tuning is a cost-effective and elegant solution to the important problem of configuring a database to the characteristics of the query load. Existing techniques operate in an...
Karl Schnaitter, Serge Abiteboul, Tova Milo, Neokl...
Semistructured data is not strictly typed like relational or object-oriented data and may be irregular or incomplete. It often arises in practice, e.g., when heterogeneous data so...
Serge Abiteboul, Jason McHugh, Michael Rys, Vasili...
This paper describes ongoing work on a domainretargetable reverse engineering environment which is used to aid the structural understanding of large information spaces. In particu...