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SIGMOD
1999
ACM
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14 years 8 days ago
Selectivity Estimation in Spatial Databases
Selectivity estimation of queries is an important and wellstudied problem in relational database systems. In this paper, we examine selectivity estimation in the context of Geogra...
Swarup Acharya, Viswanath Poosala, Sridhar Ramaswa...
ER
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Querying Heterogeneous Spatial Databases: Combining an Ontology with Similarity Functions
This paper uses a knowledge-based approach to querying heterogeneous spatial databases based on an ontology and conceptual and attribute similarities. The ontology, which may be in...
Mariella Gutiérrez, M. Andrea Rodríg...
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
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14 years 6 days ago
Incremental Distance Join Algorithms for Spatial Databases
Two new spatial join operations, distance join and distance semijoin, are introduced where the join output is ordered by the distance betweenthe spatialattribute values ofthe join...
Gísli R. Hjaltason, Hanan Samet
MTA
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
Approximating Content-Based Object-Level Image Retrieval
Object-level image retrieval is an active area of research. Given an image, a human observerdoesnot see randomdots of colors. Rather,he she observesfamiliarobjectsin the image. The...
Wynne Hsu, Tat-Seng Chua, Hung Keng Pung
SSD
2009
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Query Integrity Assurance of Location-Based Services Accessing Outsourced Spatial Databases
Outsourcing data to third party data providers is becoming a common practice for data owners to avoid the cost of managing and maintaining databases. Meanwhile, due to the populari...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Ling Hu, Cyrus Shahabi, Haixun Wang