Global e-Commerce and mass-outreach e-Governance programs have brought into sharp focus the need for database systems to store and manipulate text data efficiently in a suite of ...
1 The number and the size of spatial databases, e.g. for geomarketing, traffic control or environmental studies, are rapidly growing which results in an increasing need for spatial...
Martin Ester, Alexander Frommelt, Hans-Peter Krieg...
Remote sensing image databases are the fastest growing archives of spatial information. However, we still have a limited capacity for extracting information from large remote sens...
Marcelino Pereira dos Santos Silva, Gilberto C&aci...
The semantic web envisions a World Wide Web in which data is described with rich semantics and applications can pose complex queries. Ontologies, a cornerstone of the semantic web,...
Anuradha Gali, Cindy X. Chen, Kajal T. Claypool, R...
To truly meet the requirements of multimedia database (MMDB) management, an integrated framework for modeling, managing and retrieving various kinds of media data in a uniform way...