: Multimedia applications nowadays are becoming the standard, for they utilize the enormous human brain computational power. In the past, the Relational Database Model was generali...
The quadratic form distance (QFD) has been utilized as an effective similarity function in multimedia retrieval, in particular, when a histogram representation of objects is used...
We examine schema mappings from a type-theoretic perspective and aim to facilitate and formalize the reuse of mappings. Starting with the mapping language of Clio, we present a ty...
Through the Internet and the World-Wide Web, a vast number of information sources has become available, which offer information on various subjects by different providers, often i...
B-trees are the data structure of choice for maintaining searchable data on disk. However, B-trees perform suboptimally ? when keys are long or of variable length, ? when keys are...
Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton, Bradley C...