We address the issue of measuring storage, or query load distribution fairness in peer-to-peer data management systems. Existing metrics may look promising from the point of view ...
Materialized views (MV) can significantly improve the query performance of relational databases. In this paper, we consider MVs to optimize complex scenarios where many heterogen...
Leonardo Weiss Ferreira Chaves, Erik Buchmann, Fab...
Relevance feedback (RF) has been extensively studied in the content-based image retrieval community. However, no commercial Web image search engines support RF because of scalabil...
Previous work in change detection to XML documents is not suitable for detecting the changes to large XML documents as it requires a lot of memory to keep the two versions of XML ...
This paper presents a general framework for adapting any generative (model-based) clustering algorithm to provide balanced solutions, i.e., clusters of comparable sizes. Partition...