Many strategies for similarity search in image databases assume a metric and quadratic form-based similarity model where an optimal lower bounding distance function exists for fil...
Data warehouses store large volumes of data according to a multidimensional model with dimensions representing different axes of analysis. OLAP systems (OnLine Analytical Processi...
—A nearest neighbor query is an important notion in spatial databases and moving object databases. In the emerging application fields of moving object technologies, such as mobi...
In order to provide database-like features for files, particularly for searching in Web data, one solution is to migrate file data into a relational database. Having stored the da...
The first aim of this paper is to present the logical core of XPath 2.0: a logically clean, decidable fragment, which includes most navigational features of XPath 2.0 (complex co...