Over the last few years, blogs (web logs) have gained massive popularity and have become one of the most influential web social media in our times. Every blog post in the Blogosph...
We present several methods for mining knowledge from the query logs of the MSN search engine. Using the query logs, we build a time series for each query word or phrase (e.g., `Th...
Michail Vlachos, Christopher Meek, Zografoula Vage...
Similarity search leveraging distance-based index structures is increasingly being used for both multimedia and biological database applications. We consider distance-based indexi...
Rui Mao, Weijia Xu, Smriti R. Ramakrishnan, Glen N...
We consider the problem of a robot which has to find a target in an unknown simple polygon, based only on what it has seen so far. A street is a polygon for which the two boundary...
Abstract. We consider approximate nearest neighbor searching in metric spaces of constant doubling dimension. More formally, we are given a set S of n points and an error bound &g...
Sunil Arya, David M. Mount, Antoine Vigneron, Jian...