Multi-dimensional index structures such as R-trees enable fast searching in high-dimensional spaces. They differ from uni-dimensional structures in the following aspects: (1) inde...
Kothuri Venkata Ravi Kanth, David Serena, Ambuj K....
Abstract. In this paper, a new approach for retrieval from semistructured photographic collections is described. We have developed a retrieval model based on the Dempster-Shafer th...
This paper reports the participation of the XLDB Group from the University of Lisbon in the CLEF 2006 ad-hoc monolingual and bilingual subtasks for Portuguese. We present our IR s...
A fundamental problem related to graph structured databases is searching for substructures. One issue with respect to optimizing such searches is the ability to estimate the freque...
Angela Maduko, Kemafor Anyanwu, Amit P. Sheth, Pau...
Ontologies represent a method of formally expressing a shared understanding of information, and have been seen by many authors as a prerequisite for the "Semantic web". ...