Primary B+ -tree, a variant of B+ -tree structure with row data in leaf blocks, is an ideal storage organization for queries involving exact match and/or range search on primary k...
In many database applications involving string data, it is common to have near neighbor queries (asking for strings that are similar to a query string) or nearest neighbor queries...
Many scientific applications generate large spatiotemporal datasets. A common way of exploring these datasets is to identify and track regions of interest. Usually these regions ...
Kesheng Wu, Wendy S. Koegler, Jacqueline Chen, Ari...
—Compound images are a combination of text, graphics and natural image. They present strong anisotropic features, especially on the text and graphics parts. These anisotropic fea...
The problem of storing a set of strings – a string dictionary – in compact form appears naturally in many cases. While classically it has represented a small part of the whole ...