The problem of skyline computation has attracted considerable research attention. In the categorical domain the problem becomes more complicated, primarily due to the partially-or...
Nikos Sarkas, Gautam Das, Nick Koudas, Anthony K. ...
Abstract-- We consider the Top-k Approximate Subtree Matching (TASM) problem: finding the k best matches of a small query tree, e.g., a DBLP article with 15 nodes, in a large docum...
Nikolaus Augsten, Denilson Barbosa, Michael H. B&o...
Browsing and finding pictures in large-scale and heterogeneous collections is an important issue, most particularly for online photo sharing applications. Since such services know...
This study presents a content-based image retrieval system IMALBUM based on local region of interest called object of interest (OOI). Each segmented or user-selected OOI is indexe...
Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...