Twig pattern matching problem has been widely studied in recent years. Give an XML tree T . A twig-pattern matching query, Q, represented as a query tree, is to find all the occur...
Prior-art search is an important task in patent retrieval. The success of this task relies upon the selection of relevant search queries. Typically terms for prior-art queries are ...
Time-parameterized queries (TP queries for short) retrieve (i) the actual result at the time that the query is issued, (ii) the validity period of the result given the current mot...
This paper presents a language identification technique that detects Latin-based languages of imaged documents without OCR. The proposed technique detects languages through the wo...
We address the problem of maintaining continuous skyline queries efficiently over dynamic objects with d dimensions. Skyline queries are an important new search capability for mult...