We explore join optimizations in the presence of both timebased constraints (sliding windows) and value-based constraints (punctuations). We present the first join solution named...
An important class of queries is the LIKE predicate in SQL. In the absence of an index, LIKE queries are subject to performance degradation. The notion of indexing on substrings (...
The goal of automatic image annotation is to automatically generate annotations for images to describe their content. In the past, statistical machine translation models have been...
At present, most of the state-of-the-art solutions for XML access controls are either (1) document-level access control techniques that are too limited to support fine-grained sec...
Recently, a large amount of work has been done in XML data mining. However, we observed that most of the existing works focus on the snapshot XML data, while XML data is dynamic i...
Qiankun Zhao, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Mukesh K. Mohani...