Electronic commerce is emerging as a major Websupported application. In this paper we argue that database technology can, and should, provide the backbone for a wide range of such...
Serge Abiteboul, Bernd Amann, Sophie Cluet, Anat E...
The nearest- or near-neighbor query problems arise in a large variety of database applications, usually in the context of similarity searching. Of late, there has been increasing ...
The discipline of narratology has long recognized the need to classify documents as instances of different text types. We have discovered that classification is as applicable to h...
Many applications require the management of spatial data. Clustering large spatial databases is an important problem which tries to find the densely populated regions in the featu...
Today many kinds of postprocessing are used in digital TV receivers or multimedia terminals for video signals to enhance the picture quality. To achieve this the properties of hum...