1 We consider the problem of scheduling an unknown sequence of tasks for a single server as the tasks arrive with the goal off maximizing the total weighted value of the tasks serv...
With the proliferation of camera phones, new information retrieval applications will emerge. The image of a scene captured by a camera phone can be a query to a remote server to i...
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...
Abstract The W3C has developed XPath [3] as a query language for XML data. XPath is embedded in many other languages like XQuery and XSLT. The name of XPath derives from its basic ...
Matthias Droop, Markus Flarer, Jinghua Groppe, Sve...
Recently, there has been increasing interest in extending relational query processing to include data obtained from unstructured sources. A common approach is to use stand-alone I...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Garo...