A new approach is presented for partitioning an image database by classifying and indexing the convex hull shapes and the number of region concavities. The result is a significant...
In e-commerce environment, business partners exchange product information in the form of ecatalogs. Since each business player uses his/her own classification and identification c...
For an increasing number of modern database applications, efficient support of similarity search becomes an important task. Along with the complexity of the objects such as images...
This paper exploits the spatial representation of state space problem graphs to preprocess and enhance heuristic search engines. It combines classical AI exploration with computati...
The issue of ®nding similar 3-D surface segments arises in many recent applications of spatial database systems, such as molecular biology, medical imaging, CAD, and geographic i...