Spatial joins are fundamental in spatial databases. Over the last decade, the primary focus of research has been on joins with the predicate “region intersection.” In modern da...
With the popularization of GPS-enabled devices there is an increasing interest for location-based queries. In this context, one interesting problem is processing top-k spatial key...
Information retrieval over semantic metadata has recently received a great amount of interest in both industry and academia. In particular, discovering complex and meaningful rela...
Christian Halaschek-Wiener, Boanerges Aleman-Meza,...
Abstract. Traditional industries anticipate supporting cross-organizational cooperation as applied in the semantic Web and Web services environments. However, the international sta...
Sari Hakkarainen, Lillian Hella, Darijus Strasunsk...
Abstract. Query-by-example and query-by-keyword both suffer from the problem of "aliasing," meaning that example-images and keywords potentially have variable interpretat...