Current geographic information systems (GISs) have been designed for querying and maintaining static databases representing static phenomena and give little support to those users ...
MERIT (Multimedia Extensions of Retrieval Interaction Tools)1 provides a user-centered interface to a database covering European research programs, projects, and consortia in the ...
Many applications would benefit if media objects such as images could be selected and classified (or clustered) such that "conceptually similar" images are grouped toget...
This paper describes BoostMap, a method for efficient nearest neighbor retrieval under computationally expensive distance measures. Database and query objects are embedded into a v...
Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, Stan Sclaroff, G...
Schema matching is a fundamental issue to many database applications, such as query mediation and data warehousing. It becomes a challenge when different vocabularies are used to r...