—Available algorithms for the distributed construction of connected dominating sets in mobile ad hoc networks are inapplicable or suffer from a high complexity. This is mainly du...
Users who are unfamiliar with database query languages can search XML data sets using keyword queries. Current approaches for supporting such queries are either for textcentric XM...
We revisit the classical chase procedure, studying its properties as well as its applicability to standard database problems. We settle (in the negative) the open problem of decid...
This paper introduces a new method of registering point sets. The registration error is directly minimized using general-purpose non-linear optimization (the Levenberg–Marquardt...
We present a system that enables flexible and efficient phrase matching in XML documents. Since XML allows structured and unstructured information to be interleaved, phrase matchi...