Flexible querying aims at expressing preferences inside queries instead of strict requirements. We consider ordinary relational databases and flexible querying calling on fuzzy se...
Background: Keyword matching or ID matching is the most common searching method in a large database of protein-protein interactions. They are purely syntactic methods, and retriev...
Abstract. Core computation in data exchange is concerned with materializing the minimal target database for a given source database. Gottlob and Nash have recently shown that the c...
Many Geographic Information System (GIS) applications must handle large geospatial datasets stored in raster representation. Spatial joins over raster data are important queries i...
We propose a novel technique for semi-supervised image annotation which introduces a harmonic regularizer based on the graph Laplacian of the data into the probabilistic semantic ...
Yuanlong Shao, Yuan Zhou, Xiaofei He, Deng Cai, Hu...