This paper proposes a data mining approach to modeling relationships among categories in image collection. In our approach, with image feature grouping, a visual dictionary is cre...
An ad hoc data source is any semistructured data source for which useful data analysis and transformation tools are not readily available. Such data must be queried, transformed a...
Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, Kenny Qili Zhu, Pet...
Database archiving is important for the retrieval of old versions of a database and for temporal queries over the history of data. We demonstrate XArch, a management system for ma...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
Peer Data Management Systems (PDMSs) have been introduced as a solution to the problem of large-scale sharing of semantically rich data. A PDMS consists of semantic peers connecte...