: In information systems that support knowledge-discovery applications such as scientific exploration, reliance on highly structured ontologies as data-organization aids can be lim...
In a spatial database, an object may extend arbitrarily in space. As a result, many spatial data structures e.g., the quadtree, the cell tree, the R+-tree represent an object by p...
When integrating data from autonomous sources, exact matches of data items that represent the same real world object often fail due to a lack of common keys. Yet in many cases str...
In many application areas, for example in design or media production processes, several authors have to work cooperatively on the same project. Thereby, a frequently used data for...
Scalable approaches to video content classification are limited by an inability to automatically generate representations of events ode abstract temporal structure. This paper pre...