This tutorial provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of general techniques to efficiently support similarity queries in spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and multimedi...
Abstract. Current XPath processors use direct approach to query evaluation which is quite inefficient in some cases and usually implemented serially. This may be a problem in case ...
Hypothetical queries are queries embedding hypotheses about the database. The embedded hypothesis in a hypothetical query indicates, so to say, a state of the database intended for...
Decision support applications involve complex queries on very large databases. Since response times should be small, query optimization is critical. Users typically view the data ...
Venky Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey D. Ull...
Abstract. Digital Library support for textual and certain types of nontextual documents has significantly advanced over the last years. While Digital Library support implies many a...