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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A system for finding biological entities that satisfy certain conditions from texts
Finding biological entities (such as genes or proteins) that satisfy certain conditions from texts is an important and challenging task in biomedical information retrieval and tex...
Wei Zhou, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Content-based image retrieval: An application to tattoo images
Tattoo images on human body have been routinely collected and used in law enforcement to assist in suspect and victim identification. However, the current practice of matching tat...
Anil K. Jain, Jung-Eun Lee, Rong Jin, Nicholas Gre...
VLDB
2007
ACM
191views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Multidimensional reverse k NN search
Given a multidimensional point q, a reverse k nearest neighbor (RkNN) query retrieves all the data points that have q as one of their k nearest neighbors. Existing methods for proc...
Yufei Tao, Dimitris Papadias, Xiang Lian, Xiaokui ...
GIS
2002
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Handling semantic heterogeneities using declarative agreements
The focus of this paper is on interoperability issues to achieve data integration in distributed databases for geographic applications. Our concrete application is in the context ...
Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, William Sunna, ...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
175views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Ranking distributed probabilistic data
Ranking queries are essential tools to process large amounts of probabilistic data that encode exponentially many possible deterministic instances. In many applications where unce...
Feifei Li, Ke Yi, Jeffrey Jestes