Metric access methods (MAMs), such as the M-tree, are powerful index structures for supporting ty queries on metric spaces, which represent a common abstraction for those searchin...
Current rights management systems are not able to enforce copyright laws because of both legal and technological reasons. The contract rights granted by a copyright owner are often...
Cheun Ngen Chong, Sandro Etalle, Pieter H. Hartel,...
Obtaining fast and good quality approximations to data distributions is a problem of central interest to database management. A variety of popular database applications including,...
Approximate query processing has emerged as a costeffective approach for dealing with the huge data volumes and stringent response-time requirements of today's decision-suppo...
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Minos N. Garofalakis, Rajeev ...
Abstract. Despite of their advertisement as task independent representations, the reuse of ontologies in different contexts is difficult. An explanation for this is that when devel...