The need to store and query a set of strings - a string dictionary - arises in many kinds of applications. While classically these string dictionaries have accounted for a small share of the total space budget (e.g., in ...

The canonical representation of speech constitutes a perfect reconstruction (PR) analysis-synthesis system. Its parameters are the autoregressive (AR) model coefficients, the pitch period and the voiced and unvoiced ...

The Web of Data has been gaining momentum in recent years. This leads to increasingly publish more and more semi-structured datasets following, in many cases, the RDF (Resource Description Framework) data model based on ...

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) lets one express a precise visual query with simple and widespread means. In the SBIR approaches, the challenge consists in representing the image dataset features in a structure that ...

Since the launch of the Bitcoin digital currency in 2009, the interest in blockchain technology has grown over the years and has attracted many researchers. The technology initially emerged within the Bitcoin platform to ...

Since the launch of the Bitcoin digital currency in 2009, the interest in blockchain technology has grown over the years and has attracted many researchers. The technology initially emerged within the Bitcoin platform to ...