Historical linguistics aims at inferring the most likely language phylogenetic tree starting from information concerning the evolutionary relatedness of languages. The available i...
In peer-to-peer data management systems query allocation is a critical issue for the good operation of the system. This task is challenging because participants may prefer to perf...
We study KDD (Knowledge Discovery in Databases) processes on OLAP (multidimensional and multilevel) data from a query point of view. Focusing on association rule mining, we consid...
We introduce a novel spatial join operator, the ring-constrained join (RCJ). Given two sets P and Q of spatial points, the result of RCJ consists of pairs p, q (where p P, q Q) ...
This paper describes a method to identify partially occluded shapes which are randomly oriented in 3D space. The goal is to match the object contour present in an image with an ob...