Current web search engines are retrospective in that they limit users to searches against already existing pages. Prospective search engines, on the other hand, allow users to upl...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
XML suffers from the major limitation of high redundancy. Even if compression can be beneficial for XML data, however, once compressed, the data can be seldom browsed and queried i...
Andrei Arion, Angela Bonifati, Gianni Costa, Sandr...
Application-specific instructions can significantly improve the performance, energy, and code size of configurable processors. A common approach used in the design of such instruc...
Recent advances in scene understanding and related tasks
have highlighted the importance of using regions to reason
about high-level scene structure. Typically, the regions are
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