Information integration and retrieval are useful tasks in many information systems. In these systems, it is far from an easy task to directly integrate information from natural lan...
To achieve high reliability and scalability, most large-scale data warehouse systems have adopted the cluster-based architecture. In this paper, we propose the design of a new clu...
Yuting Lin, Divyakant Agrawal, Chun Chen, Beng Chi...
Bitmap indexes are widely used in Decision Support Systems (DSSs) to improve query performance. In this paper, we evaluate the use of compressed inverted indexes with adapted quer...
Data mining is an interactive and iterative process. It is very likely that a user will execute a series of similar queries differing in pattern constraints and mining parameters,...
Abstract. We present a model for complex documents possibly consisting of a hierarchically structured set of images or texts. Documents are represented both at the form level (as s...
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Stracc...