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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...