Abstract. The modeling of concepts from a cognitive perspective is important for designing spatial information systems that interoperate with human users. Concept representations t...
In high-dimensional and complex metric spaces, determining the nearest neighbor (NN) of a query object ? can be a very expensive task, because of the poor partitioning operated by...
The quadratic form distance (QFD) has been utilized as an effective similarity function in multimedia retrieval, in particular, when a histogram representation of objects is used...
In the present paper we propose a consistent way to integrate syntactical least general generalizations (lgg's) with semantic evaluation of the hypotheses. For this purpose we...
XML is widely recognized as the data interchange standard for tomorrow, because of its ability to represent data from a wide variety of sources. Hence, XML is likely to be the for...
Sudipto Guha, H. V. Jagadish, Nick Koudas, Divesh ...