In this paper we present the Slim-tree, a dynamic tree for organizing metric datasets in pages of fixed size. The Slim-tree uses the "fat-factor" which provides a simple ...
Caetano Traina Jr., Agma J. M. Traina, Bernhard Se...
Abstract: Efficient content-based similarity search in large multimedia databases requires efficient query processing algorithms for many practical applications. Especially in hi...
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
Selectivity estimation is an important step of query optimization in a database management system, and multidimensional histogram techniques have proved promising for selectivity ...
Twig queries represent the building blocks of declarative query languages over XML data. A twig query describes a complex traversal of the document graph and generates a set of el...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E....