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WEBDB
2005
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Vague Content and Structure (VCAS) Retrieval for Document-centric XML Collections
Querying document-centric XML collections with structure conditions improves retrieval precisions. The structures of such XML collections, however, are often too complex for users...
Shaorong Liu, Wesley W. Chu, Ruzan Shahinian
GIS
2007
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Pipelined spatial join processing for quadtree-based indexes
Spatial join is an important yet costly operation in spatial databases. In order to speed up the execution of a spatial join, the input tables are often indexed based on their spa...
Walid G. Aref
PODS
1995
ACM
139views Database» more  PODS 1995»
15 years 8 months ago
Normalizing Incomplete Databases
Databases are often incomplete because of the presence of disjunctive information, due to con icts, partial knowledge and other reasons. Queries against such databases often ask q...
Leonid Libkin
COMPGEOM
2005
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Kinetic sorting and kinetic convex hulls
Let S be a set of n points moving on the real line. The kinetic sorting problem is to maintain a data structure on the set S that makes it possible to quickly generate a sorted li...
Mohammad Ali Abam, Mark de Berg
CLEF
2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
UJM at ImageCLEFwiki 2008
This paper reports our multimedia information retrieval experiments carried out for the ImageCLEF track (ImageCLEFwiki). The task is to answer to user information needs, i.e. quer...
Christophe Moulin, Cécile Barat, Mathias G&...