Top-k approximate querying on string collections is an important data analysis tool for many applications, and it has been exhaustively studied. However, the scale of the problem ...
: Information-filtering systems constitute a critical component of modern information-seeking applications. As the number of users grows and the amount of information available bec...
Knowledge compilation is a common technique for propositional logic knowledge bases. A given knowledge base is transformed into a normal form, for which queries can be answered ef...
Users of image databases often prefer to retrieve relevant images by categories. Unfortunately, images are usually indexed by low-level features like color, texture and shape, whi...
This paper describes the methodology and implementation of a data management system for highly distributed systems, which was built to solve the scalability and reliability proble...