We present an optimization method and algorithm designed for three objectives: physical data independence, semantic optimization, and generalized tableau minimization. The method ...
In this paper we present the Slim-tree, a dynamic tree for organizing metric datasets in pages of fixed size. The Slim-tree uses the "fat-factor" which provides a simple ...
Caetano Traina Jr., Agma J. M. Traina, Bernhard Se...
Several IR tasks rely, to achieve high efficiency, on a single pervasive data structure called the inverted index. This is a mapping from the terms in a text collection to the docu...
We describe an algorithm for similar-image search which
is designed to be efficient for extremely large collections of
images. For each query, a small response set is selected by...
Lorenzo Torresani (Dartmouth College), Martin Szum...
In large scale online systems like Search, eCommerce, or social network applications, user queries represent an important dimension of activities that can be used to study the imp...