A top-k query retrieves the k highest scoring tuples from a data set with respect to a scoring function defined on the attributes of a tuple. The efficient evaluation of top-k q...
Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Nick Koudas, Niko...
With the advances in medical imaging devices, large volumes of high-resolution 3D medical image data have been produced. These high-resolution 3D data are very large in size, and ...
Database management systems (DBMS) have significantly changed in the last several years. From a system dealing with management of administrative data they have involved to a spati...
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
Existing studies on time series are based on two categories of distance functions. The first category consists of the Lp-norms. They are metric distance functions but cannot supp...