In this paper we describe novel techniques that make it possible to build an industrial-strength tool for automating the choice of indexes in the physical design of a SQL database...
— An approximate string query is to find from a collection of strings those that are similar to a given query string. Answering such queries is important in many applications su...
In this paper we propose a technique for segmenting images by texture content with application to indexing images in a large image database. Using a quad-tree decomposition, textu...
Abstract: Recently there has been an increasing interest in supporting bulk operations on multidimensional index structures. Bulk loading refers to the process of creating an initi...
Jochen Van den Bercken, Bernhard Seeger, Peter Wid...
Modern database applications including computer-aided design, multimedia information systems, medical imaging, molecular biology, or geographical information systems impose new re...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...