: User-defined data types such as intervals require specialized access methods to be efficiently searched and queried. As database implementors cannot provide appropriate index str...
Christoph Brochhaus, Jost Enderle, Achim Schlosser...
Databases of text and text-annotated data constitute a significant fraction of the information available in electronic form. Searching and browsing are the typical ways that users...
Wisam Dakka, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Kenneth R. W...
It has long been recognized that capturing term relationships is an important aspect of information retrieval. Even with large amounts of data, we usually only have significant ev...
Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems offer an efficient means of data sharing among a dynamically changing set of a large number of autonomous nodes. Each node in a p2p system is connected...
Spectral methods for embedding graphs and immersing data manifolds in low-dimensional speaces are notoriously unstable due to insufficient and/or numberically ill-conditioned con...