The weak instance model is a framework to consider the relations in a database as a whole, regardless of the way attributes are grouped in the individual relations. Queries and upd...
In this paper, we describe a new indexing technique, the time indez, for improving the performance of certain classes of temporal queries. The time index can be used to retrieve v...
Abstract. In this paper, we demonstrate an effective ranked XML keyword search with meaningful result display. Our system, named ICRA, recognizes a set of object classes in XML dat...
Extraction and utilization of high-level semantic features are critical for more effective video retrieval. However, the performance of video retrieval hasn't benefited much d...
Mini-Bucket Elimination (MBE) is a well-known approximation algorithm deriving lower and upper bounds on quantities of interest over graphical models. It relies on a procedure tha...