Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...
Many high-profile applications pose high-dimensional nearest-neighbor search problems. Yet, it still remains difficult to achieve fast query times for state-of-the-art approache...
We have shown how to construct multiresolution structures for reversing subdivision rules using global least squares models 16. As a result, semiorthogonal wavelet systems have al...
Faramarz F. Samavati, N. Mahdavi-Amiri, Richard M....
In this paper, we address the problem of database selection for XML document collections, that is, given a set of collections and a user query, how to rank the collections based o...
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...