We introduce two new index structures based on the q-gram index. The new structures index substrings of variable length instead of q-grams of fixed length. For both of the new ind...
Existing techniques for autonomous indoor navigation are often environment-specific and thus limited in terms of their applicability. In this paper, we take a fundamentally differ...
Temporal aggregate queries retrieve summarized information about records with time-evolving attributes. Existing approaches have at least one of the following shortcomings: (i) th...
Although the issue of approximate text retrieval is gaining importance in the last years, it is currently addressed by only a few indexing schemes. To reduce space requirements, t...
High dimensional data sets are encountered in many modern database applications. The usual approach is to construct a summary of the data set through a lossy compression technique...