Abstract. Besides topological relations and approximate relations, cardinal directions have turned out to be an important class of qualitative spatial relations. In spatial databas...
Tao Chen, Markus Schneider, Ganesh Viswanathan, We...
The queries defined on data warehouses are complex and use several join operations that induce an expensive computational cost. This cost becomes even more prohibitive when querie...
Abstract. In this report, we describe our studies with cross language and interactive image retrieval in ImageCLEF 2004. Typical cross language retrieval requires special linguisti...
Vineet Bansal, Chen Zhang, Joyce Y. Chai, Rong Jin
Current Web Engineering methods develop "closed" web applications from conceptual models. This fact makes difficult the integration and the interoperability of different ...
Victoria Torres, Joan Fons, Oscar Asensi, Vicente ...
In this paper we discuss how metaphors for supporting user interaction with multimedia databases can be automatically generated. The work presented is a further step in the develo...
Maria Francesca Costabile, Donato Malerba, Matthia...