— Research on query optimization has traditionally focused on exhaustive enumeration of an exponential number of candidate plans. Alternatively, heuristics for query optimization...
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
In this paper we propose a technique for segmenting images by texture content with application to indexing images in a large image database. Using a quad-tree decomposition, textu...
Many location-based applications require constant monitoring of k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) queries over moving objects within a geographic area. Existing approaches to this problem...
To integrate many data sources we use a peer mediator framework where views defined in the peers are logically composed in terms of each other. A common approach to execute queri...