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...
Transaction time databases retain and provide access to prior states of a database. An update “inserts” a new record while preserving the old version. Immortal DB builds trans...
David B. Lomet, Roger S. Barga, Mohamed F. Mokbel,...
The R*-tree, as a state-of-the-art spatial index, has already found its way into commercial systems like Oracle. In this paper, we aim at improving query performance of the R*tree...
As the number and size of large timestamped collections (e.g. sequences of digitized newspapers, periodicals, blogs) increase, the problem of efficiently indexing and searching su...
Theodoros Lappas, Benjamin Arai, Manolis Platakis,...
Enacting and capturing real motion for all potential scenarios is terribly expensive; hence, there is a great demand to synthetically generate realistic human motion. However, it ...
Timothy Edmunds, S. Muthukrishnan, Subarna Sadhukh...