Given a set of multi-dimensional points, the skyline contains the best points according to any preference function that is monotone on all axes. In practice, applications that req...
The query optimizer of a database system is confronted with two aspects when handling user-defined functions (UDFs) in query predicates: the vast differences in evaluation costs b...
Active database management systems have been developed for applications needing an automatic reaction in response to certain events. Events can be simple in nature or complex. Com...
The association of timestamps with various data items such as tuples or attribute values is fundamental to the management of time-varying information. Using intervals in timestamp...
We present a new method for relevance feedback in image retrieval and a scheme to learn weighted distances which can be used in combination with different relevance feedback metho...
Enrique Vidal, Hermann Ney, Roberto Paredes, Thoma...