The recent advances in database technology have enabled the development of a new generation of spatial databases, where the DBMS is able to manage spatial and non-spatial data typ...
Abstract. Given two datasets DA and DB the closest-pair query (CPQ) retrieves the pair (a,b), where a ∈ DA and b ∈ DB, having the smallest distance between all pairs of objects...
Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Alexandros Nanopoulos, ...
Automatic generation of semantic metadata describing spatial relations is highly desirable for image digital libraries. Relative spatial relations between objects in an image conv...
Yuhang Wang, Fillia Makedon, James Ford, Li Shen, ...
Wrapping databases allows them to be reused in formerly unplanned contexts, such as web-based applications or federated systems. Indeed, a wrapper can provide external clients of ...
Philippe Thiran, Jean-Luc Hainaut, Geert-Jan Hoube...
Many parallel systems offer a simple view of memory: all storage cells are addresseduniformly. Despite a uniform view of the memory, the machines differsignificantly in theirmemo...