Spatial data are common in many scientific and commercial domains such as geographical information systems and gene/protein expression profiles. Querying for distribution patterns...
Vishwakarma Singh, Arnab Bhattacharya, Ambuj K. Si...
Elevation maps are a widely used spatial data representation in geographical information systems (GIS). Paths on elevation maps can be characterized by profiles, which describe re...
XML databases often contain documents comprising structured text. Therefore, it is important to integrate "information retrieval style" query evaluation, which is well-s...
We present a fast proximity query algorithm for haptic display of complex deformable models using a layered representation. Assuming that each solid model can be represented as a ...
Nico Galoppo, Miguel A. Otaduy, Paul Mecklenburg, ...
Abstract. Query optimization is an important functionality of modern database systems and often based on estimating the selectivity of queries before actually executing them. Well-...