The design of external index structures for one- and multidimensional extended objects is a long and well studied subject in basic database research. Today, more and more commercia...
From the standpoint of satisfying human's informationneeds, the current digital library (DL) systems suffer from the following two shortcomings: (i) inadequate high-level cog...
Ling Feng, Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Jeroen Hoppenbrouw...
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 ...
Most prior work on information extraction has focused on extracting information from text in digital documents. However, often, the most important information being reported in an...
Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) are a natural extension of heterogeneous database systems. One of the main tasks in such systems is efficient query processing. Insisting on co...