This is the first volume to focus specifically on Rabindranath Tagore's dramatic literature, visiting translations and adaptations of Tagore's drama, and cross-cultural encounters in his works. As Asia's first Nobel Laureate, Tagore's highly original plays occupy a central position in the Indian theatrescape. Tagore experimented with dance, music, dance drama, and plays, exploring concepts of environment, education, gender and women, postcolonial encounters, romantic idealism, and universality. Tagore's drama plays a generous host to experimentations with new performance modes, like the writing and staging of an all-women play on stage for the first time, or the use of cross-cultural styles such as Manipuri dance, Thai craft in stage design, or the Baul singing styles. This book is an exciting re-exploration of Tagore's plays, visiting issues such as his contribution to Indian drama, drama and environment, feminist readings, postcolonial engagements, cross-cultural encounters, drama as performance, translational and adaptation modes, the non-translated or the non-translatable Tagore drama, Tagore drama in the 21st century, and Indian film. The volume serves as a wide-ranging and up-to-date resource on the criticism of Tagore drama, and will appeal to a range of Theatre and Performance scholars as well as those interested in Indian theatre, literature, and film.

Fundamentals of Database Indexing and Searching presents well-known database searching and indexing techniques. It focuses on similarity search queries, showing how to use distance functions to measure the notion of dissimilarity. After defining database queries and similarity search queries, the book organizes the most common and representative index structures according to their characteristics. The author first describes low-dimensional index structures, memory-based index structures, and hierarchical disk-based index structures. He then outlines useful distance measures and index structures that use the distance information to efficiently solve similarity search queries. Focusing on the difficult dimensionality phenomenon, he also presents several indexing methods that specifically deal with high-dimensional spaces. In addition, the book covers data reduction techniques, including embedding, various data transforms, and histograms. Through numerous real-world examples, this book explores how to effectively index and search for information in large collections of data. Requiring only a basic computer science background, it is accessible to practitioners and advanced undergraduate students.

Fundamentals of Database Indexing and Searching presents well-known database searching and indexing techniques. It focuses on similarity search queries, showing how to use distance functions to measure the notion of dissimilarity. After defining database queries and similarity search queries, the book organizes the most common and representative index structures according to their characteristics. The author first describes low-dimensional index structures, memory-based index structures, and hierarchical disk-based index structures. He then outlines useful distance measures and index structures that use the distance information to efficiently solve similarity search queries. Focusing on the difficult dimensionality phenomenon, he also presents several indexing methods that specifically deal with high-dimensional spaces. In addition, the book covers data reduction techniques, including embedding, various data transforms, and histograms. Through numerous real-world examples, this book explores how to effectively index and search for information in large collections of data. Requiring only a basic computer science background, it is accessible to practitioners and advanced undergraduate students.

The three-volume set LNCS 13245, 13246 and 13247 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2022, held online, in April 2021. The total of 72 full papers, along with 76 short papers, are presented in this three-volume set was carefully reviewed and selected from 543 submissions. Additionally, 13 industrial papers, 9 demo papers and 2 PhD consortium papers are included. The conference was planned to take place in Hyderabad, India, but it was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The three-volume set LNCS 13245, 13246 and 13247 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2022, held online, in April 2021. The total of 72 full papers, along with 76 short papers, are presented in this three-volume set was carefully reviewed and selected from 543 submissions. Additionally, 13 industrial papers, 9 demo papers and 2 PhD consortium papers are included. The conference was planned to take place in Hyderabad, India, but it was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The three-volume set LNCS 13245, 13246 and 13247 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2022, held online, in April 2021. The total of 72 full papers, along with 76 short papers, are presented in this three-volume set was carefully reviewed and selected from 543 submissions. Additionally, 13 industrial papers, 9 demo papers and 2 PhD consortium papers are included. The conference was planned to take place in Hyderabad, India, but it was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.