Applications like multimedia retrieval require efficient support for similarity search on large data collections. Yet, nearest neighbor search is a difficult problem in high dimen...
Arjen P. de Vries, Nikos Mamoulis, Niels Nes, Mart...
XML streams, such as RSS feeds or complex event streams, are becoming increasingly pervasive as they provide the foundation for a wide range of emerging applications. An important...
In several applications of logic programming and Transaction Logic, such as, planning, trust management and independent Semantic Web Services, an action might produce incomplete f...
The modeling of high level semantic events from low level sensor signals is important in order to understand distributed phenomena. For such content-modeling purposes, transformat...
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are increasingly managing very large sets of data and hence a centralized data repository may not always provide the most scalable solution. H...