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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...