— Autonomous index management in native XML DBMSs has to address XML’s flexibility and storage mapping features, which provide a rich set of indexing options. Change of worklo...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
We investigate three schemes for severe compression of iris images in order to assess what their impact would be on recognition performance of the algorithms deployed today for ide...
We describe a compression model for semistructured documents, called Structural Contexts Model (SCM), which takes advantage of the context information usually implicit in the stru...
The XML/XPath filtering problem has found wide-spread interest. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for solving it. Our approach encodes XPath expressions (XPEs) as ordere...