Qualitative variables take symbolic values, such as hot, shoe, Europe or France. Sometimes, the values may be arranged in layers or levels of detail. For instance, the variable pla...
Abstract: Currently, there are strong efforts to integrate spatial and temporal database technology into spatio-temporal database systems. This paper views the topic from a rather ...
Martin Erwig, Markus Schneider, Ralf Hartmut G&uum...
The notion of fuzzy connectedness captures the idea of "hanging-togetherness" of image elements in an object by assigning a strength of connectedness to every possible pa...
Jayaram K. Udupa, Punam K. Saha, Roberto de Alenca...
A comparison of several indexing techniques for complex object in object-oriented database systems is presented, based on assumption of non-uniform distribution of attribute value...
A new object recognition method, the Invariant Pixel Set Signature (IPSS), is introduced. Objects are represented with a probability density on the space of invariants computed fr...