The overwhelming amount of information sources now available through the internet has increased the need to combine or integrate the data retrieved from these sources in an intell...
The top-k similarity joins have been extensively studied and used
in a wide spectrum of applications such as information retrieval, decision
making, spatial data analysis and dat...
In many real applications, especially those involving data objects with complicated semantics, it is generally desirable to discover the relation between patterns in the input spa...
This paper presents a system for efficient data transformations between XML and relational databases, called XML Data Mediator (XDM). XDM enables the transformation by externalizi...
Nianjun Zhou, George A. Mihaila, Dikran S. Melikse...
Abstract. We analyze the computational complexity of various twodimensional platform games. We identify common properties of these games that allow us to state several meta-theorem...