In the year 2000 a competition was organised to collect face verification results on an identical, publicly available data set using a standard evaluation protocol. The database us...
Kieron Messer, Josef Kittler, Mohammad Sadeghi, S&...
Information available in the Internet is frequently supplied simply as plain ascii text, structured according to orthographic and semantic conventions. Traditional document classi...
Abstract. Set-valued attributes are convenient to model complex objects occurring in the real world. Currently available database systems support the storage of set-valued attribut...
Mikolaj Morzy, Tadeusz Morzy, Alexandros Nanopoulo...
In this paper, the most appropriate buffer structure, page replacement policy and buffering scheme for closest pairs queries, where both spatial datasets are stored in R-trees, are...
Antonio Corral, Michael Vassilakopoulos, Yannis Ma...
Abstract. Solving conflicts between overlapping databases requires an understanding of the reasons that lead to the inconsistencies. Provided that conflicts do not occur randomly b...
We present a functional model for the analysis of large volumes of detailed transactional data, accumulated over time. In our model, the data schema is an acyclic graph with a sing...
Abstract. A temporal question answering system must be able to deduce which qualitative temporal relation holds between two events, a reasoning task that is complicated by the fact...
Steven Schockaert, David Ahn, Martine De Cock, Eti...
Preference-based search is the problem of finding an item that matches best with a user's preferences. User studies show that example-based tools for preference-based search c...
Abstract. When querying XML collections, users cannot always express their need in a precise way. Systems should therefore support vagueness at both the content and structural leve...
Karen Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem, Claude Chrismen...