We consider the problem of ray shooting in a three-dimensional scene consisting of k (possibly intersecting) convex polyhedra with a total of n facets. That is, we want to preproc...
One of the major problems in question answering (QA) is that the queries are either too brief or often do not contain most relevant terms in the target corpus. In order to overcom...
Rank-aware query processing has become essential for many applications that return to the user only the top-k objects based on the individual user's preferences. Top-k queries...
We report on a query compilation technique that enables the construction of alternative efficient query providers for Microsoft’s Language Integrated Query (LINQ) framework. LIN...
Among various proposals for primitives for deconstructing XML data two approaches seem to clearly stem from practise: path expressions, widely adopted by the database community, an...