Supporting queries and modifications on XML documents is a challenging task, and several related approaches exist. When implementing query and modification languages efficientl...
There has been a significant amount of excitement and recent work on column-oriented database systems ("column-stores"). These database systems have been shown to perfor...
Situational awareness (SA) applications monitor the real world and the entities therein to support tasks such as rapid decision making, reasoning, and analysis. Raw input about unf...
Abstract— A bloom filter is a simple, space-efficient, randomized data structure for concisely representing a static data set, in order to support approximate membership querie...
Web image search is inspired by text search techniques; it mainly relies on indexing textual data that surround the image file. But retrieval results are often noisy and image pro...