In this paper we propose and analyze a new spatial access method, namely the S∗ -tree, for the efficient secondary memory encoding and manipulation of images containing multiple ...
The potential for physical flora collections to support scientific research is being enhanced by rapid development of digital databases that represent characteristics of the physic...
Tom Auer, Alan M. MacEachren, Craig McCabe, Scott ...
It is now common for video; real-time and collected, mobile and static, to be georeferenced and stored in large archives for users of expert systems to access and interact with. I...
Distributed work is becoming a major issue for a large part of the work force and distributed collaborative research has almost become the norm. Consequently, distributed communic...
In a number of application areas, distributed database systems can be used to provide persistent storage of data while providing efficient access for both local and remote data. W...