Abstract. Extensions of relational databases which aim at utilizing various aspects of similarity and imprecision in data processing are widespread in the literature. A need for de...
Geographic information retrieval encompasses important tasks including finding the location of a user, and locations relevant to their search queries. Web-based search engines rec...
The rapid adoption of XML as the standard for data representation and exchange foreshadows a massive increase in the amounts of XML data collected, maintained, and queried over th...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E....
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
Continuous spatial queries posted within an environment of moving objects produce as their results a time-varying set of objects. In the most ambitious case both queries and data ...
Yu-Ling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, Haojun Wang, Wei-...