Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Efficient user-adaptable similarity search more and more increases in its importance for multimedia and spatial database systems. As a general similarity model for multi-dimension...
1 We propose a new framework for the summarization of XML document properties called EXsum (Element-wise XML summarization), which can capture statistical information of all import...
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of data placement, indexing, and querying large XML data repositories distributed over an existing P2P service infrastructure. Our archit...
Leonidas Fegaras, Weimin He, Gautam Das, David Lev...
This paper is concerned with efficient querying of very large multi-resolution datasets on storage and compute clusters. We present a suite of services that support storage, index...