In content based image retrieval, the success of any distance-based indexing scheme depends critically on the quality of the chosen distance metric. We propose in this paper a ker...
This paper presents a comparative study of color descriptors for content-based image retrieval on the Web. Several image descriptors were compared theoretically and the most relev...
The idea of Conceptual Neighbourhood Diagram (CND) has proved its relevance in the areas of qualitative reasoning about time and qualitative reasoning about space. In this work, a ...
Abstract: Independent from the concrete definition of the term “data quality” consistency always plays a major role. There are two main points when dealing with the data qualit...
The Vague Query System (VQS) due to Kiing and Palkoska is an add-on to relational databases which is able to suggest alternative query results in case that an exact query fails. T...