Abstract. Finding all occurrences of a twig pattern in an XML document is a core operation for XML query processing. The emergence of XML as a common mark-up language for data inte...
Abstract-- Networks-on-Chip will serve as the central integration platform in future complex SoC designs, composed of a large number of heterogeneous processing resources. Most res...
Markov Decision Processes (MDP) have been widely used as a framework for planning under uncertainty. They allow to compute optimal sequences of actions in order to achieve a given...
Detection of interactions among data items constitutes an essential part of knowledge discovery. The cascade model is a rule induction methodology using levelwise expansion of a la...
Modern object-relational database systems are capable of managing multimedia data, e.g. image, video and audio. In this paper we study how such universal database systems can be u...