Abstract. In this paper we address the problem of comparing multimedia documents, which can be described according to diļ¬erent reference models. If we consider presentations as c...
We study visibly pushdown automata (VPA) models for expressing and evaluating queries, expressed using MSO formulas, on words with a nesting structure (like XML documents). We deļ...
When using Bayesian networks, practitioners often express constraints among variables by conditioning a common child node to induce the desired distribution. For example, an āorā...
Abstract. Enterprise privacy enforcement allows enterprises to internally enforce a privacy policy that the enterprise has decided to comply to. To facilitate the compliance with d...
Abstract. We give a general framework for approximate query processing in semistructured databases. We focus on regular path queries, which are the integral part of most of the que...