For most scientists, their research interests are dynamically changing all the time. Through an analysis of research interests, we find that all the changes are with some character...
Abstract. Hierarchical clustering has been proved an effective means for physically organizing large fact tables since it reduces significantly the I/O cost during ad hoc OLAP quer...
Nikos Karayannidis, Timos K. Sellis, Yannis Kouvar...
Metric access methods (MAMs) serve as a tool for speeding similarity queries. However, all MAMs developed so far are index-based; they need to build an index on a given database. T...
We address the problem of highly transient populations in unstructured and loosely-structured peerto-peer systems. We propose a number of illustrative query-related strategies and...
Similarity search in complex databases is of utmost interest in a wide range of application domains. Often, complex objects are described by several representations. The combinatio...