We present a data structure, called a ray interpolant tree, or RI-tree, which stores a discrete set of directed lines in 3-space, each represented as a point in 4-space. Each dire...
To find the optimal branching of a nominal attribute at a node in an L-ary decision tree, one is often forced to search over all possible L-ary partitions for the one that yields t...
Don Coppersmith, Se June Hong, Jonathan R. M. Hosk...
In this paper, we propose a novel compact tree (Ctree) for XML indexing, which provides not only concise path summaries at the group level but also detailed child-parent links at ...
We present data representations, distance measures and organizational structures for fast and efficient retrieval of similar shapes in image databases. Using the Hough Transform w...
Michail Vlachos, Zografoula Vagena, Philip S. Yu, ...
The notion of comparative similarity ‘X is more similar or closer to Y than to Z’ has been investigated in both foundational and applied areas of knowledge representation and r...
Mikhail Sheremet, Dmitry Tishkovsky, Frank Wolter,...