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ICDE
2004
IEEE
110views Database» more  ICDE 2004»
16 years 8 months ago
LDC: Enabling Search By Partial Distance In A Hyper-Dimensional Space
Recent advances in research fields like multimedia and bioinformatics have brought about a new generation of hyper-dimensional databases which can contain hundreds or even thousan...
Nick Koudas, Beng Chin Ooi, Heng Tao Shen, Anthony...
MIS
2004
Springer
162views Multimedia» more  MIS 2004»
15 years 12 months ago
Integrating the Results of Multimedia Sub-Queries Using Qualitative Preferences
When similarity queries over multimedia databases are processed by splitting the overall query condition into a set of sub-queries, the problem of how to efficiently and effectiv...
Ilaria Bartolini, Paolo Ciaccia, Vincent Oria, M. ...
JGTOOLS
2006
199views more  JGTOOLS 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Fast Approximation of High-Order Voronoi Diagrams and Distance Transforms on the GPU
We present a graphics hardware implementation of the tangent-plane algorithm for computing the kth-order Voronoi diagram of a set of point sites in image space. Correct and effici...
Ian Fischer, Craig Gotsman
FOCS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Symmetry and Approximability of Submodular Maximization Problems
Abstract— A number of recent results on optimization problems involving submodular functions have made use of the ”multilinear relaxation” of the problem [3], [8], [24], [14]...
Jan Vondrák
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
146views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
Distributed query evaluation with performance guarantees
Partial evaluation has recently proven an effective technique for evaluating Boolean XPath queries over a fragmented tree that is distributed over a number of sites. What left ope...
Gao Cong, Wenfei Fan, Anastasios Kementsietsidis