Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...
We present data representations, distance measures and organizational structures for fast and efficient retrieval of similar shapes in image databases. Using the Hough Transform w...
Michail Vlachos, Zografoula Vagena, Philip S. Yu, ...
This paper considers the self-stabilizing unison problem. The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, we establish that when any self-stabilizing asynchronous unison protoc...
Christian Boulinier, Franck Petit, Vincent Villain
Abstract-- The trans-genomic query (TGQ) problem -- enabling the free query of biological information, even across genomes -- is a central challenge facing bioinformatics. Solution...
Douglas Stott Parker Jr., Ruey-Lung Hsiao, Yi Xing...
Researchers struggle to manage vast amounts of data coming from hundreds of sources in online repositories. To successfully conduct research studies, researchers need to find, ret...
David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Deryle W. Lons...