Abstract This paper describes the overall design and architecture of the Timber XML database system currently being implemented at the University of Michigan. The system is based u...
H. V. Jagadish, Shurug Al-Khalifa, Adriane Chapman...
B-trees are the data structure of choice for maintaining searchable data on disk. However, B-trees perform suboptimally ? when keys are long or of variable length, ? when keys are...
Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton, Bradley C...
Let finite source and reproduction alphabets X and Y and a distortion measure d : X ? Y [0, ) be given. We study the minimum asymptotic rate required to describe a source distrib...
Ertem Tuncel, Prashant Koulgi, Shankar L. Regunath...
— Information extraction systems are traditionally implemented as a pipeline of special-purpose processing modules. A major drawback of such an approach is that whenever a new ex...
—The paper addresses the maximal lifetime problem in sensor-target surveillance networks. Given a set of sensors and targets in an Euclidean plane, each sensor can watch all targ...
Hai Liu, Xiaowen Chu, Yiu-Wing Leung, Xiaohua Jia,...