— An approximate string query is to find from a collection of strings those that are similar to a given query string. Answering such queries is important in many applications su...
Location information gathered from a variety of sources in the form of sensor data, video streams, human observations, and so on, is often imprecise and uncertain and needs to be ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
We present a new system, called Retimm, for searching databases made of documents containing images and text. Images are indexed by colour and texture distributions.. Colour and t...
Regulations require businesses to archive many electronic documents for extended periods of time. Given the sheer volume of documents and the response time requirements, documents...
Soumyadeb Mitra, Marianne Winslett, Windsor W. Hsu
Versioned document collections are collections that contain multiple versions of each document. Important examples are Web archives, Wikipedia and other wikis, or source code and ...