Several organizations have developed very large market basket databases for the maintenance of customer transactions. New applications, e.g., Web recommendation systems, present th...
—Content-based copy detection (CBCD) is one of the emerging multimedia applications for which there is a need of a concerted effort from the database community and the computer ...
Modeling objects by probability density functions (pdf) is a new powerful method to represent complex objects in databases. By representing an object as a pdf, e.g. a Gaussian, it...
We introduce the notion of a data topology and the problem of topology search over databases. A data topology summarizes the set of all possible relationships that connect a given...
A new access method, called M-tree, is proposed to organize and search large data sets from a generic "metric space", i.e. where object proximity is only defined by a di...