This paper presents a new method for computing the integer hull of a parameterized rational polyhedron by introducing the concept of periodic polyhedron. Besides concerning general...
Adaptable similarity queries based on quadratic form distance functions are widely popular in data mining applications, particularly for domains such as multimedia, CAD, molecular ...
Complex similarity queries, i.e., multi-feature multi-object queries, are needed to express the information need of a user against a large multimedia repository. Even if a user in...
Digital library research is mostly focused on the generation of large collections of multimedia resources and state-ofthe-art tools for their indexing and retrieval. However, digi...
The database query optimizer requires the estimation of the query selectivity to find the most efficient access plan. For queries referencing multiple attributes from the same rel...