The paper presents an integrated set-theoretic data model that offers a framework for defining a unified schema for any database environment. We utilise the concepts ”entity...
Emmanuel J. Yannakoudakis, Panagiotis Andrikopoulo...
Nearest neighbor queries are important in many settings, including spatial databases (Find the k closest cities) and multimedia databases (Find the k most similar images). Previou...
Spreadsheets in financial markets are frequently used as database, calculator and reporting application combined. This paper describes an alternative approach in which spreadsheet...
: We present a novel approach to retrieve metadata to scholarly papers stored locally as PDF files. A fingerprint is produced from the PDF fulltext to query an online metadata repo...
Abstract The protection of customer privacy is a fundamental issue in today's corporate marketing strategies. Not surprisingly, many research efforts have proposed new privacy...