Abstract. As it is well-known, querying and managing structured data in natural language is a challenging task due to its ambiguity (syntactic and semantic) and its expressiveness....
One of the formalisms to qualitatively describe polylines in the plane are double-cross matrices. In a double-cross matrix the relative position of any two line segments in a poly...
K Nearest Neighbor search has many applications including data mining, multi-media, image processing, and monitoring moving objects. In this paper, we study the problem of KNN over...
Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Y...
Network management operations are complicated, tedious and error-prone, requiring significant human involvement and expert knowledge. In this paper, we first examine the fundament...
Xu Chen, Yun Mao, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Jacobus E. ...
We propose a series of methods to represent the evolution of a field of science at different levels: namely micro, meso and macro levels. We use a previously introduced asymmetric...