The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...
Until recently, issues in image retrieval have been handled in DBMSs and in computer vision as separate research works. Nowadays, the trend is towards integrating the two approach...
Solomon Atnafu, Richard Chbeir, David Coquil, Lion...
We present a novel indexing schema that provides eļ¬cient nearest-neighbor queries in multimedia databases consisting of objects described by multiple feature vectors. The beneļ¬...
Many applications of knowledge discovery require the knowledge to be consistent with data. Examples include discovering rules for query optimization, database integration, decisio...