Relational database systems are increasingly used to manage XML documents, especially for data-centric XML. In this paper we present a new approach to efficiently manage document-c...
In region-based image annotation, keywords are usually associated with images instead of individual regions in the training data set. This poses a major challenge for any learning...
We consider the problem of extracting a river network and a watershed hierarchy from a terrain given as a set of irregularly spaced points. We describe TerraStream, a "pipeli...
There are many application classes where the users are flexible with respect to the output quality. At the same time, there are other constraints, such as the need for real-time ...
Although traditional databases and data warehouses have been exploited widely to manage persistent data, a large number of applications from sensor network need functional support...