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...
In this paper, we propose a set of similarity metrics for manipulating collections of values occuring in XML documents. Following the data model presented in TAX algebra, we treat...
Carina F. Dorneles, Carlos A. Heuser, Andrei E. N....
Query optimizers rely on fast, high-quality estimates of result sizes in order to select between various join plans. Selfjoin sizes of relations provide bounds on the join size of...
Noga Alon, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, Mario...
Existing hypertext systems have emphasized either the navigational or spatial expression of relationships between objects. We are exploring the combination of these modes of expre...
Frank M. Shipman III, Andreas Girgensohn, Lynn Wil...
— This paper extends a state projection method for structure preserving model reduction to situations where only a weaker notion of system structure is available. This weaker not...
Enoch Yeung, Jorge M. Goncalves, Henrik Sandberg, ...