People often seek information by asking other people even when they have access to vast reservoirs of information such as the Internet and libraries. This is because people are gr...
Practical scalability of Description Logic (DL) reasoning is an important premise for the adoption of OWL in a real-world setting. Many highly efficient optimizations for the DL ta...
We propose a general framework to index very large datasets of spatial data in a distributed system. Our proposal is built on the recently proposed Scalable Distributed Rtree (SD-...
Abstract: Content based multimedia retrieval is an important topic in database systems. An emerging and challenging topic in this area is the content based search in video data. A ...
Histogram construction or sequence segmentation is a basic task with applications in database systems, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Its aim is to approximate a...