The ability to represent knowledge about space and its position therein is crucial for a mobile robot. To this end, topological and semantic descriptions are gaining popularity fo...
XML is rapidly emerging as the new standard for data representation and exchange on the Web. An XML document can be accompanied by a Document Type Descriptor (DTD) which plays the...
Minos N. Garofalakis, Aristides Gionis, Rajeev Ras...
Duplicate elimination is an important stage in integrating data from multiple sources. The challenges involved are finding a robust deduplication function that can identify when t...
Data integrated from multiple sources may contain inconsistencies that violate integrity constraints. The constraint repair problem attempts to find "low cost" changes t...
Philip Bohannon, Michael Flaster, Wenfei Fan, Raje...
The range searching problem is fundamental in a wide spectrum of applications such as radio frequency identification (RFID) networks, location based services (LBS), and global po...