Today’s search engines are increasingly required to broaden their capabilities beyond free-text search. More complex features, such as supporting range constraints over numeric ...
Marcus Fontoura, Ronny Lempel, Runping Qi, Jason Y...
Earthquake data composes an ever increasing collection of earth science information for post-processing analysis. Earth scientists, local or national administration officers and s...
Gerasimos Marketos, Yannis Theodoridis, Ioannis S....
In this paper we present a new compression scheme for signature tree structures. Beyond the reduction of storage space, compression attains significant savings in terms of query pr...
Maria Kontaki, Yannis Manolopoulos, Alexandros Nan...
The work described here initially formed part of a triangulation exercise to establish the effectiveness of the Query Term Order algorithm. The methodology produced subsequently p...
Metric access methods (MAMs) serve as a tool for speeding similarity queries. However, all MAMs developed so far are index-based; they need to build an index on a given database. T...