Clustering is one of the most important tasks for geographic knowledge discovery. However, existing clustering methods have two severe drawbacks for this purpose. First, spatial c...
Semistructured data is not strictly typed like relational or object-oriented data and may be irregular or incomplete. It often arises in practice, e.g., when heterogeneous data so...
Serge Abiteboul, Jason McHugh, Michael Rys, Vasili...
Although there has been much written about various information integration technologies, little has been said regarding how to combine these technologies together to build an enti...
Greg Barish, Yi-Shin Chen, Dan DiPasquo, Craig A. ...
Polygonal objects are characterized by the following well-known parameters: number of vertices, area, perimeter and so on. These parameters describe the data sets that are used in...
Thomas Brinkhoff, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Ralf Schneid...
The importance of query processing over uncertain data has recently arisen due to its wide usage in many real-world applications. In the context of uncertain databases, previous wo...