We describe an algorithm for estimating the number of page fetches for a partial or complete scan of a B-tree index. The algorithm obtains estimates for the number of page fetches ...
Label stream partition is a useful technique to reduce the input I/O cost of holistic twig join by pruning useless streams beforehand. The Prefix Path Stream (PPS) partition scheme...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Knowledge representation (KR) is used to store and retrieve meaningful data. This data is saved using dynamic data structures that are suitable for the style of KR being implemente...
Numerous genomic annotations are currently stored in different web-accessible databanks that scientists need to mine with user-defined queries and in a batch mode to orderly integ...
Marco Masseroli, Andrea Stella, Natalia Meani, Myr...