In the spirit of Landin, we present a calculus of dependent types to serve as the semantic foundation for a family of languages called data description languages. Such languages, ...
With over 800 million pages covering most areas of human endeavor, the World-wide Web is a fertile ground for data mining research to make a di erence to the e ectiveness of infor...
The problem of efficiently finding the best match for a query in a given set with respect to the Euclidean distance or the cosine similarity has been extensively studied. However...
Structured query language (SQL) is a classical way to access relational databases. Although SQL is powerful to query relational databases, it is rather hard for inexperienced user...
Guoliang Li, Ju Fan, Hao Wu, Jiannan Wang, Jianhua...
Current search engines crawl the Web, download content, and digest this content locally. For multimedia content, this involves considerable volumes of data. Furthermore, this proc...