The efficient retrieval of data items on set-valued attributes is an important research topic that has attracted little attention so far. We studied and modified four index structu...
The top-k similarity joins have been extensively studied and used
in a wide spectrum of applications such as information retrieval, decision
making, spatial data analysis and dat...
The grand tour, one of the most popular methods for multidimensional data exploration, is based on orthogonally projecting multidimensional data to a sequence of lower dimensional...
While database management systems offer a comprehensive solution to data storage, they require deep knowledge of the schema, as well as the data manipulation language, in order to...
In this paper, we propose an original indexing by shape of image databases based on extended grid files. We first introduce a recently developed shape description method and tailo...
Carlo Combi, Gian Luca Foresti, Massimo Francesche...