: This paper presents a novel way of examining the accuracy of the evaluation measures commonly used in information retrieval experiments. It validates several of the rules-of-thum...
We discovered a surprising law governing the spatial join selectivity across two sets of points. An example of such a spatial join is "find the libraries that are within 10 m...
Christos Faloutsos, Bernhard Seeger, Agma J. M. Tr...
This paper presents an approach and a tool to increase specification quality by using a combination of UML and formal languages. Our approach is based on the expression of the UML ...
Remote data access from disparate sources across a widearea network such as the Internet is problematic due to the unpredictable nature of the communications medium and the lack o...
Many applications require the management of spatial data. Clustering large spatial databases is an important problem which tries to find the densely populated regions in the featu...