Evaluating a traditional database query against a data tuple returns a true on match and a false on mismatch. Unfortunately, there are many application scenarios where such an eva...
We consider a generalization of geometric range searching, with the goal of generating an informative "summary" of the objects contained in a query range via the applica...
Ravi Janardan, Prosenjit Gupta, Yokesh Kumar, Mich...
Various techniques have been developed for different query types in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems such as sampling queries, constrained sampling queries, multiple c...
Information integration systems have to cope with the different and limited query interfaces of the underlying information sources. First, the integration systems need description...
— A paramount challenge in probabilistic databases is the scalable computation of confidences of tuples in query results. This paper introduces an efficient secondary-storage o...