The goal of the Semantic Web is to support semantic interoperability between applications exchanging data on the web. The idea heavily relies on data being made available in machi...
In an outsourced database framework, clients place data management with specialized service providers. Of essential concern in such frameworks is data privacy. Potential clients ar...
The quadratic form distance (QFD) has been utilized as an effective similarity function in multimedia retrieval, in particular, when a histogram representation of objects is used...
Semantic caching enables mobile clients to answer spatial queries locally by storing the query descriptions together with the results. However, it supports only a limited number o...
Haibo Hu, Jianliang Xu, Wing Sing Wong, Baihua Zhe...
Topological relationships between spatial objects are important for querying, reasoning, and indexing of data within spatial databases. These relationships are qualitative and resp...
Mark McKenney, Alejandro Pauly, Reasey Praing, Mar...