Abstract— It is widely realized that the integration of information retrieval (IR) and database (DB) techniques provides users with a broad range of high quality services. A new ...
Commercial relational databases currently store vast amounts of real-world data. The data within these relational repositories are represented by multiple relations, which are int...
In this paper, we propose a unified framework, called Markov Model Mediator (MMM), to facilitate image database clustering and to improve the query performance. The structure of t...
Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui ...
Determining attribute correspondences is a difficult, time-consuming, knowledge-intensive part of database integration. We report on experiences with tools that identified candi...
Earth observation technologies have developed rapidly during the last decades. Substantial amounts of earth observation data have been acquired and stored among the literature and...