During the last decade various spatial data structures have been designed and compared against each other, all of them re ecting a dynamic situation with ongoing object insertion a...
A key problem in case-based reasoning is the representation, organization and maintenance of case libraries. While current approaches rely on heuristic and psychologically inspire...
Freshness has been increasingly realized by commercial search engines as an important criteria for measuring the quality of search results. However, most information retrieval met...
In the last few years an interest in native XML databases has surfaced. With other authors we argue that such databases need their own provisions for concurrency control since tra...
Abstract. XML query processors suffer from main-memory limitations that prevent them from processing large XML documents. While content-based predicates can be used to project down...