Modeling objects by probability density functions (pdf) is a new powerful method to represent complex objects in databases. By representing an object as a pdf, e.g. a Gaussian, it...
We present a new system, called Retimm, for searching databases made of documents containing images and text. Images are indexed by colour and texture distributions.. Colour and t...
Topological relationships between spatial objects represent important knowledge that users of geographic information systems expect to retrieve from a spatial database. A di cult t...
Eliseo Clementini, Paolino Di Felice, Peter van Oo...
In this paper, three techniques to implement logical OIDs are thoroughly evaluated: hashing, B-trees and a technique called direct mapping. Among these three techniques, direct ma...
Querying semantically related data sources depends on the ability to map between their schemas. Unfortunately, in most cases matching between schema is still largely performed man...
Fabien Duchateau, Zohra Bellahsene, Mark Roantree,...