XML query languages use directional path expressions to locate data in an XML data collection. They are tightly coupled to the structure of a data collection, and can fail when ev...
Sourav S. Bhowmick, Curtis E. Dyreson, Erwin Leona...
Abstract. The notion of user preference in database modeling has recently received much attention in advanced applications, such as personalization of e-services, since it captures...
Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat the geogra...
Subodh Vaid, Christopher B. Jones, Hideo Joho, Mar...
The Human Genetics Unit (HGU) of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Edinburgh has developed the Edinburgh Mouse Atlas, a spatial temporal framework to store and analyze biologic...
Konstantinos Liakos, Albert Burger, Richard A. Bal...
Polygonal objects are characterized by the following well-known parameters: number of vertices, area, perimeter and so on. These parameters describe the data sets that are used in...
Thomas Brinkhoff, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Ralf Schneid...