The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems, including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and rewriting ...
This article presents a genetic learning algorithm to derive discrete patterns that can be used for classification and retrieval of 3D motion capture data. Based on boolean motion ...
In this paper, we propose a method to search the Web for sentence substitutions for a given sentence query. Our method uses only lexico-syntactic patterns dynamically generated fro...
The performance of XML database queries can be greatly enhanced by rewriting them using materialized views. We study the problem of rewriting a query using materialized views, whe...
Query-by-tapping systems are content-based music retrieval systems that allow users to tap or clap in a microphone the rhythmic pattern of the melody requested. In this paper, a n...