The sparse data is becoming increasingly common and available in many real-life applications. However, relative little attention has been paid to effectively model the sparse data ...
Many websites provide restrictive form-like interfaces which allow users to execute search queries on the underlying hidden databases. In this paper, we consider the problem of es...
Arjun Dasgupta, Xin Jin, Bradley Jewell, Nan Zhang...
We describe a new invariant-based data model for image databases under our approach for shape-based retrieval. The data model relies on contours description of the image shape, an...
In many application contexts, like statistical databases, scientific databases, query optimizers, OLAP, and so on, data are often summarized into synopses of aggregate values. Su...
Francesco Buccafurri, Filippo Furfaro, Domenico Sa...
Nowadays, one of the main research issues of great interest is the efficient tracking of mobile objects that enables the effective answering of spatiotemporal queries. This line o...
Katerina Raptopoulou, Michael Vassilakopoulos, Yan...