The spatial join operation is benchmarked using variants of well-known spatial data structures such as the R-tree, R-tree, R+-tree, and the PMR quadtree. The focus is on a spatia...
One of the main drawbacks of the Semantic Web is the lack of semantically rich data, since most of the information is still stored in relational databases. In this paper, we presen...
Gazetteers are key components of georeferenced information systems, including applications such as Web-based mapping services. Existing gazetteers lack the capabilities to fully i...
Image mining systems that can automatically extract semantically meaningful information (knowledge) from image data are increasingly in demand. The fundamental challenge in image m...
A formal semantics of uncertain databases typically takes an algebraic approach by mapping an uncertain database to a set of relational databases, or possible worlds. We present a...