Abstract. State-of-the-art numerical solvers in Earth Sciences produce multi terabyte datasets per execution. Operating on increasingly larger datasets becomes challenging due to i...
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
Abstract. A global Data warehouse (DW) integrates data from multiple distributed heterogeneous databases and other information sources. DW can be abstractly seen as a set of materi...
Approximate predicates can be used to reduce the number of comparisons made by expensive, complex predicates. For example, to check if a point is within a region (expensive predic...
Today, two classes of indexing methods enjoying wide applicability are the Inverted Index and the Superimposed Coding based Signature File (SC-SF). The former is most efficient i...
Dimitrios Dervos, P. Linardis, Yannis Manolopoulos