The New Zealand Digital Library offers several collections of information over the World Wide Web. Although fulltext indexing is the primary access mechanism, musical collections ...
The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...
Computer Aided Software Engineering tools represent one the main successes of software engineering in the past decades. They however need to be improved along several dimensions i...
Pattern matching relies on deterministic finite automata (DFA) to search for predefined patterns. While a bit-DFA method is recently proposed to exploit the parallelism in pattern...
In this work we aim to capitalize on the availability of Internet image search engines to automatically create image training sets from user provided queries. This problem is part...