Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...
We study the problem of answering spatial queries in databases where objects exist with some uncertainty and they are associated with an existential probability. The goal of a thre...
Xiangyuan Dai, Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis, Yufei...
The Digital Video Album (DVA) system described here integrates various cooperating subsystems to index and query video documents according to their semantic content and other meta...
Qiuying Zhang, Mohan S. Kankanhalli, Philippe Mulh...
Abstract. The following paper proposes a new kind of relevance feedback. It shows how so called query profiles can be employed for disambiguation and clarification. Query profiles ...
In this paper we consider the problem of answering queries using views, with or without ontological constraints, which is important for data integration, query optimization, and d...