Multimedia Database Management Systems (MMDBMS) have to efficiently provide the specific functionalities required by time-dependent multimedia data types. During presentation play...
We present an algorithm for external memory planar point location that is both effective and easy to implement. The base algorithm is an external memory variant of the bucket metho...
Many applications of knowledge discovery require the knowledge to be consistent with data. Examples include discovering rules for query optimization, database integration, decisio...
Handling large amounts of data, such as large image databases, requires the use of approximate nearest neighbor search techniques. Recently, Hamming embedding methods such as spec...
With the rise of XML as a standard for representing business data, XML data warehouses appear as suitable solutions for Web-based decision-support applications. In this context, i...