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ICIAP
1995
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Image Retrieval by Elastic Matching of User Sketches
—Effective image retrieval by content from database requires that visual image properties are used instead of textual labels to properly index and recover pictorial data. Retriev...
Alberto Del Bimbo, Pietro Pala
CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Conceptual modeling by analogy and metaphor
Metaphor is not merely a rhetorical device, characteristic of language alone, but rather a fundamental feature of the human conceptual system. A metaphor is understood by finding ...
Karin Koogan Breitman, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barb...
CIDR
2009
157views Algorithms» more  CIDR 2009»
15 years 3 months ago
SCADS: Scale-Independent Storage for Social Computing Applications
Collaborative web applications such as Facebook, Flickr and Yelp present new challenges for storing and querying large amounts of data. As users and developers are focused more on...
Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, David A. Patterson,...
TEAA
2005
Springer
105views Hardware» more  TEAA 2005»
15 years 7 months ago
An Efficient Zoning Technique for Multi-dimensional Access Methods
Abstract. In emerging database applications that deal with large sets of multidimensional data, the performance of the query system significantly depends on the performance of its ...
Byunggu Yu, Seon Ho Kim
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SIGGRAPH
1992
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Generative modeling: a symbolic system for geometric modeling
This paper discusses a new, symbolic approach to geometric modeling called generative modeling. The approach allows specification, rendering, and analysis of a wide variety of sha...
John M. Snyder, James T. Kajiya