The majority of text retrieval and mining techniques are still based on exact feature (e.g. words) matching and unable to incorporate text semantics. Many researchers believe that...
As the amount of Web information grows rapidly, search engines must be able to retrieve information according to the user's preference. In this paper, we propose a new web sea...
Kenneth Wai-Ting Leung, Dik Lun Lee, Wang-Chien Le...
In this paper, we study a novel form of continuous nearest neighbor queries in the presence of obstacles, namely continuous obstructed nearest neighbor (CONN) search. It considers...
This paper describes the technical details of SemRetriev, a prototype system for image retrieval which combines the use of an ontology which structures an image repository and of ...
In the last decade, spatio-temporal database research focuses on the design of effective and efficient indexing structures in support of location-based queries such as predictive...