Abstract—XML indexing and search has become an important topic, and twig joins are key building blocks in XML search systems. This paper describes a novel approach using a nested...
For logic programs with arithmetic predicates, showing termination is not easy, since the usual order for the integers is not well-founded. A new method, easily incorporated in th...
In this paper, we propose the Hybrid-Layer Index (simply, the HL-index) that is designed to answer top-k queries efficiently when the queries are expressed on any arbitrary subset ...
In this paper, we propose a new method to cross-media semantic-based information retrieval, which combines classical text-based and content-based image retrieval techniques. This ...
Email-based activity management systems promise to give users better tools for managing increasing volumes of email, by organizing email according to a user’s activities. Curren...