MoBIoS is a specialized database management system whose storage manager is based on metric-space indexing, and whose query language entails biological data types. When relational...
The complexity of deploying high-performance spatial structures in transactional DBMS environments has motivated researchers to experiment with the idea of reusing the effort inve...
In this paper we investigate some properties and algorithms related to a text sparsification technique based on the identification of local maxima in the given string. As the numb...
Pierluigi Crescenzi, Alberto Del Lungo, Roberto Gr...
We present the Priority R-tree, or PR-tree, which is the first R-tree variant that always answers a window query using O((N/B)1-1/d + T/B) I/Os, where N is the number of ddimensio...
Lars Arge, Mark de Berg, Herman J. Haverkort, Ke Y...
This paper proposes two methods of query expansion for retrieving paraphrase candidates indexed by Kanzi (Chinese) characters. The idea is to calculate similarity between Kanzi ch...