The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
A new approach to the recognition of temporal behaviors and activities is presented. The fundamental idea, inspired by work in speech recognition, is to divide the inference probl...
Graphs are an increasingly important data source, with such important graphs as the Internet and the Web. Other familiar graphs include CAD circuits, phone records, gene sequences...
Christopher R. Palmer, Phillip B. Gibbons, Christo...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
XML documents are normally stored as plain text files. Hence, the natural and most convenient way to update XML documents is to simply edit the text files. But efficient query eva...
Barbara Catania, Wen Qiang Wang, Beng Chin Ooi, Xi...