While advances have been made in structuring, indexing and retrieval of multimedia documents, we propose to study the unexplored problematics of information retrieval on heterogen...
This paper develops an efficient new method for 3D partial shape retrieval. First, a Monte Carlo sampling strategy is employed to extract local shape signatures from each 3D model...
We introduce the notion of a data topology and the problem of topology search over databases. A data topology summarizes the set of all possible relationships that connect a given...
An Event-Join combinestemporaljoin and outerjoin properties into a single operation. It is mostly used to group temporal attributes of an entity into a single relation. In this pa...
If XML is to play the critical role of the lingua franca for Internet data interchange that many predict, it is necessary to start designing and adopting benchmarks allowing the c...