Abstract. The similarity join has become an important database primitive to support similarity search and data mining. A similarity join combines two sets of complex objects such t...
We present a technique for organizing data in spatial databases with non-convex domains based on an automatic characterization using the medial-axis transform (MAT). We define a t...
Eric A. Perlman, Randal C. Burns, Michael M. Kazhd...
One of the simplest ways to query a database is through a form, where a user can fill in relevant information and obtain desired results by submitting the form. Designing good sta...
Given an image (or video clip, or audio song), how do we automatically assign keywords to it? The general problem is to find correlations across the media in a collection of multi...
Many cluster based replication solutions have been proposed providing scalability and fault-tolerance. Many of these solutions perform replica control in a middleware on top of th...