We introduce ImageMap, as a method for indexing and similarity searching in Image DataBases (IDBs). ImageMap answers "queries by example", involving any number of object...
Euripides G. M. Petrakis, Christos Faloutsos, King...
A join-index is a data structure used for processing join queries in databases. Join-indices use precomputation techniques to speed up online query processing and are useful for da...
XML data warehouses form an interesting basis for decision-support applications that exploit complex data. However, native-XML database management systems (DBMSs) currently bear l...
Abstract. Unlike people, household robots cannot rely on commonsense knowledge when accomplishing everyday tasks. We believe that this is one of the reasons why they perform poorly...
Selecting relevant features for Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers is important for a variety of reasons such as generalization performance, computational efficiency, and ...