Geospatial information integration is not a trivial task. An integrated view must be able to describe various heterogeneous data sources and its interrelation to obtain shared con...
Miguel Torres, Serguei Levachkine, Rolando Quinter...
This work introduces a new family of link-based dissimilarity measures between nodes of a weighted directed graph. This measure, called the randomized shortest-path (RSP) dissimil...
Luh Yen, Marco Saerens, Amin Mantrach, Masashi Shi...
A schema mapping is a specification that describes how data structured under one schema (the source schema) is to be transformed into data structured under a different schema (the...
Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa, Wa...
The tragic events of September 11th have caused drastic effects on many aspects of society. Academics in the fields of computational and information science have been called upon ...
Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...