Abstract Although e-commerce is becoming popular, product rules, which describe various conditions such as prices, applicability, and discount conditions are still expressed in nat...
Recently, highly accurate positioning devices enable us to provide various types of location-based services. On the other hand, because position data obtained by such devices incl...
—Content-based copy detection (CBCD) is one of the emerging multimedia applications for which there is a need of a concerted effort from the database community and the computer ...
At FXPAL Japan we have built an (experimental) Smart Conference Room (SCR) that contains multiple cameras, microphones, displays, and capture devices. Based on our experience, in ...
Queries on XML documents typically combine selections on element contents, and, via path expressions, the structural relationships between tagged elements. Efficient support for ...
Abstract— Defining suitable indexes is a major task when optimizing a database. Usually, a human database administrator defines a set of indexes in the design phase of the data...
Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Martin Kempa, Volker...
In this paper we show that the topologies of most logarithmic-style P2P systems like Pastry, Tapestry or P-Grid resemble small-world graphs. Inspired by Kleinberg’s small-world ...
Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Anwitaman Datta, Karl Abere...
Detecting and eliminating fuzzy duplicates is a critical data cleaning task that is required by many applications. Fuzzy duplicates are multiple seemingly distinct tuples which re...