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SSD
2007
Springer
139views Database» more  SSD 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
Local Topological Relationships for Complex Regions
Topological relationships between spatial objects are important for querying, reasoning, and indexing of data within spatial databases. These relationships are qualitative and resp...
Mark McKenney, Alejandro Pauly, Reasey Praing, Mar...
W2GIS
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Theoretical Grounding for Semantic Descriptions of Place
This paper is motivated by the problem of how to provide better access to ever enlarging collections of digital images. The paper opens by examining the concept of place in geograp...
Alistair J. Edwardes, Ross S. Purves
ICDE
2006
IEEE
161views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
A Survey on Disk Oriented Querying and Reasoning on the Semantic Web
This paper presents a description of seven systems, which use database technology to both represent knowledge persistently and make scalable queries on it, in the Semantic Web con...
María del Mar Roldán García, ...
WECWIS
2006
IEEE
78views ECommerce» more  WECWIS 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
Improving Patient Activity Schedules by Multi-agent Pareto Appointment Exchanging
We present a dynamic and distributed approach to the hospital patient scheduling problem: the multi-agent Pareto-improvement appointment exchanging algorithm, MPAEX. It respects t...
Ivan B. Vermeulen, Sander M. Bohte, D. J. A. Somef...
ICEIS
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Benchmarking an XML Mediator
: In the recent years, XML has become the universal interchange format. Many investigations have been made on storing, querying and integrating XML with existing applications. Many...
Florin Dragan, Georges Gardarin