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ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Learning Spatial Context from Tracking using Penalised Likelihoods
MAP estimation of Gaussian mixtures through maximisation of penalised likelihoods was used to learn models of spatial context. This enabled prior beliefs about the scale, orientat...
Hammadi Nait-Charif, Stephen J. McKenna
AVI
2000
13 years 9 months ago
A Visual Tool for Querying Geographic Databases
To support users in querying geographic databases we have developed a system that lets people sketch what they are looking for. It closes the gap between user and information syst...
Andreas D. Blaser, Max J. Egenhofer
VLDB
1991
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
A Metadata Approach to Resolving Semantic Conflicts
In this paper we describe a rule-based approach to semantic specification that can be used to establish semantic agreement between a source and receiver. Query processing techniqu...
Michael Siegel, Stuart E. Madnick
ICDE
2010
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
Supporting Top-K Keyword Search in XML Databases
Keyword search is considered to be an effective information discovery method for both structured and semistructured data. In XML keyword search, query semantics is based on the con...
Liang Jeff Chen, Yannis Papakonstantinou
ER
1995
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Reverse Engineering of Relational Database Applications
Abstract. This paper presents techniques for reverse engineering of relational database applications. The target of such an effort is the definition of a fully equipped object-orie...
Mark W. W. Vermeer, Peter M. G. Apers