Abstract—Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are widely used for sharing digital items without structured metadata and in absence of any kind of digital rights management applied to the d...
Walter Allasia, Francesco Gallo, Marco Milanesio, ...
Abstract. Determining whether two segments s and t in a planar polygonal scene weakly see each other is a classical problem in computational geometry. In this problem we seek for a...
Internet search companies sell advertisement slots based on users’ search queries via an auction. Advertisers have to solve a complex optimization problem of how to place bids o...
The queries defined on data warehouses are complex and use several join operations that induce an expensive computational cost. This cost becomes even more prohibitive when querie...
Abstract. We are presenting a coherent framework for XQuery processing that incorporates IR-style approximate matching and allows the ordering of results by their relevance score. ...