Decision-support applications in emerging environments require that SQL query results or intermediate results be shipped to clients for further analysis and presentation. These cl...
In information-integration systems, sources may have diverse and limited query capabilities. In this paper we show that because sources have restrictions on retrieving their infor...
We present an algorithm that extracts the largest shape within a specificclass, starting from a set of image edgels. The algorithm inherits the Best-First Segmentation approach [jp...
We address the problem of extending topographic maps to color images. A topographic map gives a morphological and a geometrical representation of the information contained in natu...
Color features are among the most important features used in image database retrieval, especially in cases where no additional semantic information is available. Due to its compac...