Efficient evaluation of similarity queries is one of the basic requirements for advanced multimedia applications. In this paper, we consider the relevant case where complex similar...
There has been a large amount of research on efficient document retrieval in both IR and web search areas. One important technique to improve retrieval efficiency is early termina...
The notorious "dimensionality curse" is a well-known phenomenon for any multi-dimensional indexes attempting to scale up to high dimensions. One well known approach to o...
Hui Jin, Beng Chin Ooi, Heng Tao Shen, Cui Yu, Aoy...
Efficiently querying RDF [1] data is being an important factor in applying Semantic Web technologies to real-world applications. In this context, many efforts have been made to st...
: User-defined data types such as intervals require specialized access methods to be efficiently searched and queried. As database implementors cannot provide appropriate index str...
Christoph Brochhaus, Jost Enderle, Achim Schlosser...