Many scientific, financial, data mining and sensor network applications need to work with continuous, rather than discrete data e.g., temperature as a function of location, or sto...
One of the outcomes of Moore's Law - according to which the exponential growth of technical advances in computer science is pushing more and more of our computers into obsole...
Thimoty Barbieri, Franca Garzotto, Giovanni Beltra...
— Most biomedical research databases contain considerable amounts of time-oriented data. However, temporal knowledge about the contextual meaning of such data is not usually repr...
Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...
We present the first uniquely represented data structure for an external memory model of computation, a B-tree analogue called a B-treap. Uniquely represented data structures repre...