The design of efficient textual similarities is an important issue in the domain of textual data exploration. Textual similarities are for example central in document collection s...
The information overload on the Web has created a great need for efficient filtering mechanisms. Many sites (e.g., CNN and Quicken) address this problem by allowing a user to crea...
The Mediation of Information using XML (MIX) project is a joint effort between the the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Database Lab at the University of California S...
In this paper we present WINDSURF (Wavelet-Based Indexing of Images Using Region Fragmentation), a new approach to content-based image retrieval. The method uses the wavelet trans...
Stefania Ardizzoni, Ilaria Bartolini, Marco Patell...
This paper presents two metrics for the Nearest Neighbor Classifier that share the property of being adapted, i.e. learned, on a set of data. Both metrics can be used for similari...
We propose an information push model information dissemination to mobile users, called dynamic channel model. It is a set of extensions to the conceptual models developed for info...
Ana Paula Afonso, Francisco S. Regateiro, Má...
Recent efforts in the Conceptual Modelling community have been devoted to properly capturing time-varying information, and several proposals of temporally enhanced Entity-Relation...
The high frequency of applications involving large, ordered, nested lists suggests that list is the "next most" natural data type after set. A list differs from a set th...
In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a CORBA Query Service targeted to access data that is defined by the EXPRESS data modeling language. EXPRESS is used pri...