Responsive environments are physical surroundings whose components change their behaviour to accommodate the presence of people as well as other components. We describe a means to...
: In the processing of Chinese documents and queries in information retrieval (IR), one has to identify the units that are used as indexes. Words and n-grams have been used as inde...
XML data warehouses form an interesting basis for decision-support applications that exploit complex data. However, native-XML database management systems (DBMSs) currently bear l...
Blobworld is a system for image retrieval based on nding coherent image regions which roughly correspond to objects. Each image is automatically segmented into regions blobs"...
Chad Carson, Megan Thomas, Serge Belongie, Joseph ...
This paper presents two algorithms for maintaining Btree index consistency in a DBMS which does not use write-ahead logging (WAL). One algorithm is similar to shadow paging, but i...