We describe the design and implementation of a new data layout scheme, called multi-dimensional clustering, in DB2 Universal Database Version 8. Many applications, e.g., OLAP and ...
Conjunctive query (CQ) evaluation on relational databases is NP-complete in general. Several restrictions, like bounded tree-width and bounded hypertree-width, allow polynomial ti...
With the wide diffusion of digital image acquisition devices,
the cost of managing hundreds of digital images is quickly increasing.
Currently, the main way to search digital ima...
Keyframe extraction constitutes a fundamental unit in many video retrieval-related applications. In the emerging research field of content-based video copy detection, efficient rep...
A recurring manual task in data integration, ontology alignment or model management is finding mappings between complex meta data structures. In order to reduce the manual effor...