Abstract-- When dealing with massive quantities of data, topk queries are a powerful technique for returning only the k most relevant tuples for inspection, based on a scoring func...
Several application contexts require the ability to use together and compare different geographic datasets (maps) concerning the same or overlapping areas. This is for example the...
Alberto Belussi, Barbara Catania, Paola Podest&agr...
We discuss the de nition of keys for XML documents, paying particular attention to the concept of a relative key, which is commonly used in hierarchically structured documents and...
Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Wenfei Fan, Carm...
This paper proposes a comparison of color features for image retrieval. In particular the UCID image database has been employed to compare the retrieval capabilities of different c...
Conditional functional dependencies (CFDs) have recently been proposed as extensions of classical functional dependencies that apply to a certain subset of the relation, as specif...
Graham Cormode, Lukasz Golab, Flip Korn, Andrew Mc...