An important issue for federated systems of diverse data sources is optimizing cross-source queries, without building knowledge of individual sources into the optimizer. This pape...
Cardinal directions have turned out to be very important qualitative spatial relations due to their numerous applications in spatial wayfinding, GIS, qualitative spatial reasoning ...
Data stream processing systems have become ubiquitous in academic and commercial sectors, with application areas that include financial services, network traffic analysis, battlef...
Relevance Feedback has proven very effective for improving retrieval accuracy. A difficult yet important problem in all relevance feedback methods is how to optimally balance the...
nd: A key abstraction in representing proteomics knowledge is the notion of unique identifiers for individual entities (e.g. proteins) and the massive graph of relationships among...
Andrew K. Smith, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Kevin Y. Yip, Mar...