Most of today's structured data is stored in relational databases. Such a database consists of multiple relations which are linked together conceptually via entity-relationsh...
Statistics on networks have become vital to the study of relational data drawn from areas such as bibliometrics, fraud detection, bioinformatics, and the Internet. Calculating man...
In this paper, we propose a novel appearance-based representation, called Structured Ordinal Feature (SOF). SOF is a binary string encoded by combining eight ordinal blocks in a ci...
ShengCai Liao, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li, Xiaotong Yuan...
This paper describes a new kind of language bias, S-structural indeterminate clauses, which takes into account the meaning of predicates that play a key role in the complexity of l...
In this paper we propose a fundamental approach to perform the class of Nearest Neighbor (NN) queries, the core class of queries used in many of the location-based services, withou...