Similarity search in complex databases is of utmost interest in a wide range of application domains. Often, complex objects are described by several representations. The combinatio...
Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...
Bitmap indexes are known to be efficient for ad-hoc range queries that are common in data warehousing and scientific applications. However, they suffer from the curse of cardina...
With the exponential growth of moving objects data to the Gigabyte range, it has become critical to develop effective techniques for indexing, updating, and querying these massive ...
Jens Dittrich, Lukas Blunschi, Marcos Antonio Vaz ...
In this paper, we propose an original indexing by shape of image databases based on extended grid files. We first introduce a recently developed shape description method and tailo...
Carlo Combi, Gian Luca Foresti, Massimo Francesche...