XML suffers from the major limitation of high redundancy. Even if compression can be beneficial for XML data, however, once compressed, the data can be seldom browsed and queried i...
Andrei Arion, Angela Bonifati, Gianni Costa, Sandr...
Abstract. Comparison of images requires a distance metric that is sensitive to the spatial location of objects and features. Such sensitive distance measures can, however, be compu...
Abstract. Nearest-neighbor queries in high-dimensional space are of high importance in various applications, especially in content-based indexing of multimedia data. For an optimiz...
Abstract. Human perception of shape is based on visual parts of objects to a point that a single, significant visual part is sufficient to recognize the whole object. For example,...
Overlapping and multi-version techniques are two popular frameworks that transform an ephemeral index into a multiple logical-tree structure in order to support versioning databas...