With more and more natural language text stored in databases, handling respective query predicates becomes very important. Optimizing queries with predicates includes (sub)string ...
— Many tasks require multiple sensing capabilities; in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), it is expensive to deploy a homogeneous network wherein every sensor has the same functiona...
Xiaoming Lu, Matt Spear, Karl N. Levitt, Shyhtsun ...
Web image search has been explored and developed in academic as well as commercial areas for over a decade. To measure the similarity between Web images and user queries, most of ...
Ying Liu, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Lei Zhang, Wei-Yin...
As a principled approach to capturing semantic relations of words in information retrieval, statistical translation models have been shown to outperform simple document language m...
We develop a cache-oblivious data structure for storing a set S of N axis-aligned rectangles in the plane, such that all rectangles in S intersecting a query rectangle or point ca...