The problem of recognizing classes of objects as opposed to special instances requires methods of comparing images that capture the variation within the class while they discrimina...
We consider the problem of creating a sample view of a database table. A sample view is an indexed, materialized view that permits efficient sampling from an arbitrary range query...
Given two sets of points P and Q, a group nearest neighbor (GNN) query retrieves the point(s) of P with the smallest sum of distances to all points in Q. Consider, for instance, t...
In the last decade there has been an explosion of interest in mining time series data. Literally hundreds of papers have introduced new algorithms to index, classify, cluster and s...
Recent research on skyline queries has attracted much interest in the database and data mining community. Given a database, an object belongs to the skyline if it cannot be domina...
Cuiping Li, Anthony K. H. Tung, Wen Jin, Martin Es...