We address the problem of spatial conservation planning in which the goal is to maximize the expected spread of cascades of an endangered species by strategically purchasing land ...
Motivated by the need to efficiently leverage user relevance feedback in content-based retrieval from image databases, we propose a fast, clustering-based indexing technique for e...
High-performance data-intensive query processing tasks like OLAP, data mining or scientific data analysis can be severely I/O bound, even when high-end RAID storage systems are us...
Marcin Zukowski, Niels Nes, Peter A. Boncz, S&aacu...
Scientific database federations are geographically distributed and network bound. Thus, they could benefit from proxy caching. However, existing caching techniques are not suitabl...
This paper presents an algorithm, called the winnerupdate algorithm, for accelerating the nearest neighbor search. By constructing a hierarchical structure ,for each feature point...