Materialization is a powerful and ubiquitous abstraction pattern for conceptual modeling that relates a class of categories (e.g., models of cars) and a class of more concrete obje...
We introduce ImageMap, as a method for indexing and similarity searching in Image DataBases (IDBs). ImageMap answers "queries by example", involving any number of object...
Euripides G. M. Petrakis, Christos Faloutsos, King...
In a large-scale information system such as a digital library or the web, a set of distributed caches can improve their effectiveness by coordinating their data placement decisions...
Spatial data mining is the discovery of interesting relationships and characteristics that may exist implicitly in spatial databases. To this end, this paper has three main contrib...
In this paper, we have developed a HiTi (Hierarchical MulTi) graph model for structuring large topographical road maps to the minimum cost route computation. The HiTi graph model p...