The question whether a given set of views, defined by queries, can be used to answer another query, arises in several contexts such as query optimization, data integration and se...
Overlapping markup refers to the issue of how to represent data structures more expressive than trees--for example direct acyclic graphs--using markup (meta-)languages which have ...
Abstract. Colored range queries are a well-studied topic in computational geometry and database research that, in the past decade, have found exciting applications in information r...
Superimposition is a composition technique that has been applied successfully in many areas of software development. Although superimposition is a general-purpose concept, it has ...
This paper proposes an embedded rate scalable wavelet-based image coding algorithm. We introduce a simple and efficient approach for coding the positions and the signs of the wave...