Topological relations between geographic regions are of interest in many applications. When the exact boundaries of regions are not available, such relations can be established by...
Steven Schockaert, Philip D. Smart, Alia I. Abdelm...
With the increasing development of real applications using Semantic Web Technologies, it is necessary to provide scalable and efficient ontology querying and reasoning systems. In ...
Virtual product development puts high demands on data management solutions due to many dependent heterogeneous data sources, automatic data transformations, and fast changing requ...
In this paper, we present an OLAP framework for trajectories of moving objects. We introduce a new operator GROUP TRAJECTORIES for group-by operations on trajectories and present ...
Oliver Baltzer, Frank K. H. A. Dehne, Susanne E. H...
Recently, a variety of workflow patterns has been proposed focusing on specific aspects like control flow, data flow, and resource assignments. Though these patterns are relevant f...
When issuing user-specific queries, users often have a vaguely defined information need. Skyline queries identify the most "interesting" objects for users' incomplet...
So far, an efficient similarity search in multimedia databases has been carried out by metric access methods (MAMs), where the utilized similarity measure had to satisfy the metric...
Abstract. Industrial, scientific, and commercial applications use information systems to trace the execution of a business process. Relevant events are registered in massive logs a...
Antonio Turi, Annalisa Appice, Michelangelo Ceci, ...
Opinion mining received well attention in finding personal opinions from user generated content. These opinions contain valuable information for improving and/or comparing the prod...
Dong (Haoyuan) Li, Anne Laurent, Mathieu Roche, Pa...
We address the problem of maintaining continuous skyline queries efficiently over dynamic objects with d dimensions. Skyline queries are an important new search capability for mult...