We consider unranked trees, that have become an active subject of study recently due to XML applications, and characterize commonly used fragments of firstorder (FO) and monadic ...
This paper addresses the problem of finding objects made of glass (or other transparent materials) in images. Since the appearance of glass objects depends for the most part on wha...
—Continuous queries are used to monitor changes to time varying data and to provide results useful for online decision making. Typically a user desires to obtain the value of som...
We study the problem of estimating the average of a Lipschitz continuous function f defined over a metric space, by querying f at only a single point. More specifically, we explore...
Although traditional databases and data warehouses have been exploited widely to manage persistent data, a large number of applications from sensor network need functional support...