In many modern applications such as biometric identification systems, sensor networks, medical imaging, geology, and multimedia databases, the data objects are not described exact...
In implementations of non-standard database systems, large objects are often embedded within an aggregate of different types, i.e. a tuple. For a given size and access probabilit...
The number of potentially-related data resources available for querying -- databases, data warehouses, virtual integrated schemas -continues to grow rapidly. Perhaps no area has s...
Partha Pratim Talukdar, Marie Jacob, Muhammad Salm...
This paper presents a new model of object classes which incorporates appearance and shape information jointly. Modeling objects appearance by distributions of visual words has rec...
Cardinal directions have turned out to be very important qualitative spatial relations due to their numerous applications in spatial wayfinding, GIS, qualitative spatial reasoning ...