As the scope of personal data grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to find what we need when we need it. Desktop search tools provide a potential answer, but most existing too...
Sam Shah, Craig A. N. Soules, Gregory R. Ganger, B...
Similarity search in metric spaces is a general paradigm that can be used in several application fields. It can also be effectively exploited in content-based image retrieval syst...
As a user attention has become a precious resource, a special care has to be taken to reduce the time needed for answering queries in P2P networks. Existing solutions are usually ...
Abstract. We present data structures for maintaining the relative convex hull of a set of points (sites) in the presence of pairwise non-crossing line segments (barriers) that subd...
It is often desirable to extract structured information from raw web pages for better information browsing, query answering, and pattern mining. Many such Information Extraction (...