Real-world data -- especially when generated by distributed measurement infrastructures such as sensor networks -- tends to be incomplete, imprecise, and erroneous, making it impo...
Stochastic context-free grammars (SCFGs) have long been recognized as useful for a large variety of tasks including natural language processing, morphological parsing, speech reco...
The family of R-trees is suitable for storing various kinds of multidimensional objects and is considered an excellent choice for indexing a spatial database. Region Quadtrees are ...
Antonio Corral, Michael Vassilakopoulos, Yannis Ma...
Present databases, whether on centralized or parallel DBMSs, do not deal well with scalability. We present an architecture for Wintel multicomputers termed AMOS-SDDS, coupling a h...
Yakham Ndiaye, Aly Wane Diene, Witold Litwin, Tore...
The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...