The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
High-dimensional index is one of the most challenging tasks for content-based video retrieval (CBVR). Typically, in video database, there exist two kinds of clues for query: visual...
Zhiping Shi, Qingyong Li, Zhiwei Shi, Zhongzhi Shi
Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...
The problem of identifying approximately duplicate objects in databases is an essential step for the information integration process. Most existing approaches have relied on gener...
business requirement in the real world cannot be abstracted correctly into an entity-relationship schema. Once core entities are discovered, we can obtain an Entity-Relationship Di...