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SIGMOD
2001
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Improving Index Performance through Prefetching
This paper proposes and evaluates Prefetching B+ -Trees pB+ -Trees, which use prefetching to accelerate two important operations on B+ -Tree indices: searches and range scans. To ...
Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Todd C. Mowry
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Space-Efficient Online Computation of Quantile Summaries
An -appro ximate quantile summary of a sequence of N elements is a data structure that can answer quantile queries about the sequence to within a precision of N. We presen t a new...
Michael Greenwald, Sanjeev Khanna
PODS
2001
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Optimization of Sequence Queries in Database Systems
The need to search for complex and recurring patterns in database sequences is shared by many applications. In this paper, we discuss how to express and support efficiently sophis...
Reza Sadri, Carlo Zaniolo, Amir M. Zarkesh, Jafar ...
ICIAP
2001
Springer
16 years 6 months ago
Text Enhancement with Asymmetric Filter for Video OCR
Stripes are common sub-structures of text characters, and the scale of these stripes varies little within a word. This scale consistency thus provides us with a useful feature for...
Datong Chen, Hervé Bourlard, Kim Shearer
ICIAP
2001
Springer
16 years 6 months ago
A World Wide Web Region-Based Image Search Engine
In this paper the development of an intelligent image content-based search engine for the World Wide Web is presented. Information Web Crawlers continuously traverse the Internet ...
Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Evangelia Triantafyllou, Mic...