Given a query iris image, the goal of indexing is to identify and retrieve a small subset of candidate irides from the database in order to determine a possible match. This can si...
We identify crucial design issues in building a distributed inverted index for a large collection of web pages. We introduce a novel pipelining technique for structuring the core ...
This paper describes the design and implementation of an XML storage manager for fast and interactive XPath expressions evaluation. This storage manager has two main parts: the XML...
Sensor networks have opened new horizons and opportunities for a variety of environmental monitoring, surveillance and healthcare applications. One of the major tasks of sensor ne...
Document retrieval and web search engines index large quantities of text. The static costs associated with storing the index can be traded against dynamic costs associated with us...