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GIS
2007
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Quality-driven geospatial data integration
Accurate and efficient integration of geospatial data is an important problem with applications in areas such as emergency response and urban planning. Some of the key challenges ...
Craig A. Knoblock, José Luis Ambite, Snehal...
GIS
2006
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Modeling and querying uncertain spatial information for situational awareness applications
Situational awareness (SA) applications monitor the real world and the entities therein to support tasks such as rapid decision-making, reasoning, and analysis. Raw input about un...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
PODS
2009
ACM
130views Database» more  PODS 2009»
16 years 2 months ago
Secondary indexing in one dimension: beyond b-trees and bitmap indexes
Let be a finite, ordered alphabet, and consider a string x = x1x2 . . . xn n . A secondary index for x answers alphabet range queries of the form: Given a range [al, ar] , retu...
Rasmus Pagh, Srinivasa Rao Satti
IDEAS
2005
IEEE
93views Database» more  IDEAS 2005»
15 years 7 months ago
Semantic Query Transformation Using Ontologies
Traditional approaches to query processing aim at rewriting a given query into another more efficient one that uses less time and/or resources during the execution. There by, the...
Chokri Ben Necib, Johann Christoph Freytag
PAKDD
2004
ACM
83views Data Mining» more  PAKDD 2004»
15 years 7 months ago
Providing Diversity in K-Nearest Neighbor Query Results
Abstract. Given a point query Q in multi-dimensional space, K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) queries return the K closest answers in the database with respect to Q. In this scenario, it is...
Anoop Jain, Parag Sarda, Jayant R. Haritsa