Traditional optimizers fail to pick good execution plans, when faced with increasingly complex queries and large data sets. This failure is even more acute in the context of XQuery...
Riham Abdel Kader, Maurice van Keulen, Peter A. Bo...
A new topic of great relevance and concern has been the design of efficient early warning systems to detect as soon as possible the emergence of spatial clusters. In particular, m...
PiQASso is a Question Answering system based on a combination of modern IR techniques and a series of semantic filters for selecting paragraphs containing a justifiable answer. Se...
Giuseppe Attardi, Antonio Cisternino, Francesco Fo...
In wireless ad hoc networks, all its nodes behave as routers and take part in its discovery and maintenance of routes to other nodes. Thus, the presence of selfish or malicious nod...
A new blind subspace-based channel estimation technique is proposed for direct-sequence code-division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems operating in the presence of unknown wide-se...