The common paradigm of searching and retrieving information on the Web is based on keyword-based search using one or more search engines, and then browsing through the large numbe...
Consider multiple users searching for a hotel room, based on size, cost, distance to the beach, etc. Users may have variable preferences expressed by different weights on the attri...
The indexing technique commonly used for long strings, such as genomes, is the suffix tree, which is based on a vertical (intra-path) compaction of the underlying trie structure. ...
An interesting issue in moving objects databases is to find similar trajectories of moving objects. Previous work on this topic focuses on movement patterns (trajectories with tim...
Subsequence similarity matching in time series databases is an important research area for many applications. This paper presents a new approximate approach for automatic online s...