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SIGMOD
2004
ACM
124views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
14 years 9 months ago
BLAS: An Efficient XPath Processing System
We present BLAS , a Bi-LAbeling based System, for efficiently processing complex XPath queries over XML data. BLAS uses Plabeling to process queries involving consecutive child ax...
Yi Chen, Susan B. Davidson, Yifeng Zheng
EDBT
2004
ACM
126views Database» more  EDBT 2004»
14 years 9 months ago
Spatial Queries in the Presence of Obstacles
Despite the existence of obstacles in many database applications, traditional spatial query processing utilizes the Euclidean distance metric assuming that points in space are dire...
Jun Zhang, Dimitris Papadias, Kyriakos Mouratidis,...
EDBT
2006
ACM
129views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Efficient Quantile Retrieval on Multi-dimensional Data
Given a set of N multi-dimensional points, we study the computation of -quantiles according to a ranking function F, which is provided by the user at runtime. Specifically, F compu...
Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis, Yufei Tao
ICIAP
2003
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A shortest path representation for video summarisation
A novel approach is presented to select multiple key frames within an isolated video shot where there is camera motion causing significant scene change. This is achieved by determ...
Sarah V. Porter, Majid Mirmehdi, Barry T. Thomas
HICSS
2010
IEEE
166views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
Spatial Variation in Search Engine Results
Geographic information retrieval (GIR) is, as a branch of traditional information retrieval, a discipline that tries to enrich data with geographical information to make it suitab...
David Noack