: The accelerated development in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Grid computing has positioned them as promising next generation computing platforms. They enable the creation of Virtual Ent...
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Many scientific applications generate massive volumes of data through observations or computer simulations, bringing up the need for effective indexing methods for efficient stora...
Ranking queries produce results that are ordered on some computed score. Typically, these queries involve joins, where users are usually interested only in the top-k join results....
A large fraction of an XML document typically consists of text data. The XPath query language allows text search via the equal, contains, and starts-with predicates. Such predicate...
Diego Arroyuelo, Francisco Claude, Sebastian Manet...
In the discrete filtering problem, a data sequence over a finite alphabet is assumed to be corrupted by a discrete memoryless channel. The goal is to reconstruct the clean sequenc...
Erik Ordentlich, Tsachy Weissman, Marcelo J. Weinb...