In this paper, we introduce preferential regular path queries. These are regular path queries whose symbols are annotated with preference weights for “scaling” up or down the i...
We present the Tom language that extends Java with the purpose of providing high level constructs inspired by the rewriting community. Tom furnishes a bridge between a general purp...
Emilie Balland, Paul Brauner, Radu Kopetz, Pierre-...
This paper introduces a new representation for planar curves. From the well-known Dirichlet problem for a disk, the harmonic function embedded in a circular disk is solely depende...
Sang-Mook Lee, A. Lynn Abbott, Neil A. Clark, Phil...
We propose a considerably faster approximation of the well known SIFT method. The main idea is to use efficient data structures for both, the detector and the descriptor. The detec...
Query expansion has been extensively studied as a technique for increasing information retrieval performance. However, due to the volume of documents available on the web, many of ...