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DEXA
2004
Springer
131views Database» more  DEXA 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Partially Ordered Preferences Applied to the Site Location Problem in Urban Planning
Abstract. This paper presents an application that aims at identifying optimal locations based on partially ordered constraints. It combines a tool developed in this project that al...
Sylvain Lagrue, Rodolphe Devillers, Jean-Yves Besq...
ESA
2004
Springer
160views Algorithms» more  ESA 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Optimal External Memory Planar Point Enclosure
Abstract. In this paper we study the external memory planar point enclosure problem: Given N axis-parallel rectangles in the plane, construct a data structure on disk (an index) su...
Lars Arge, Vasilis Samoladas, Ke Yi
MM
2003
ACM
148views Multimedia» more  MM 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
Nonparametric color characterization using mean shift
Color is very useful in locating and recognizing objects that occur in artificial environments. The color histogram has shown its efficiency and advantages as a general tool for v...
Ling-Yu Duan, Min Xu, Qi Tian, Changsheng Xu
EDBT
2009
ACM
172views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
14 years 23 days ago
Continuous visible nearest neighbor queries
In this paper, we identify and solve a new type of spatial queries, called continuous visible nearest neighbor (CVNN) search. Given a data set P, an obstacle set O, and a query li...
Yunjun Gao, Baihua Zheng, Wang-Chien Lee, Gencai C...
COSIT
2001
Springer
128views GIS» more  COSIT 2001»
14 years 19 days ago
True Grid
The Renaissance architect, moral philosopher, cryptographer, mathematician, Papal adviser, painter, city planner and land surveyor Leon Battista Alberti provided the theoretical fo...
Barry Smith