Approximate predicates can be used to reduce the number of comparisons made by expensive, complex predicates. For example, to check if a point is within a region (expensive predic...
Abstract. This paper presents a decidable fragment for combining ontologies and rules in order-sorted logic programming. We describe ordersorted logic programming with sort, predic...
An important database primitive for commonly used feature databases is the similarity join. It combines two datasets based on some similarity predicate into one set such that the n...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
One of the most important types of query processing in spatial databases and geographic information systems is the spatial join, an operation that selects, from two relations, all...
The similarity join has become an important database primitive to support similarity search and data mining. A similarity join combines two sets of complex objects such that the r...