The identification and processing of similarities in the data play a key role in multiple application scenarios. Several types of similarity-aware operations have been studied in ...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
The core of the new product development [NPD] process centers on knowledge creation, utilization and the management of knowledge. This manuscript uses a software firm case to esta...
1 The number and the size of spatial databases, e.g. for geomarketing, traffic control or environmental studies, are rapidly growing which results in an increasing need for spatial...
Martin Ester, Alexander Frommelt, Hans-Peter Krieg...
Database integration of data mining has gained popularity and its significance is well recognized. However, the performance of SQL based data mining is known to fall behind specia...