Text is ubiquitous and, not surprisingly, many important applications rely on textual data for a variety of tasks. As a notable example, information extraction applications derive...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay ...
We present data representations, distance measures and organizational structures for fast and efficient retrieval of similar shapes in image databases. Using the Hough Transform w...
Michail Vlachos, Zografoula Vagena, Philip S. Yu, ...
The World Wide Web promises to transform human society by making virtually all types of information instantly available everywhere. Two prerequisites for this promise to be realiz...
Donald D. Chamberlin, Jonathan Robie, Daniela Flor...
Binary relations are an important abstraction arising in a number of data representation problems. Each existing data structure specializes in the few basic operations required by ...
The pervasiveness of location-acquisition technologies (GPS, GSM networks, etc.) enable people to conveniently log the location histories they visited with spatio-temporal data. T...