Small Materialized Aggregates (SMAs for short) are considered a highly flexible and versatile alternative for materialized data cubes. The basic idea is to compute many aggregate ...
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
We present a method for searching in an image database using a query image that is similar to the intended target. The query image may be a hand-drawn sketch or a (potentially low...
Charles E. Jacobs, Adam Finkelstein, David Salesin
Abstract. We study the approximation of the integration of multivariate functions classes in the quantum model of computation. We first obtain a lower bound of the n-th minimal qu...
In location-based services, it is common for a user to issue a query based on his/her current position. One such example is "find the available cabs within two miles of my cu...