EDBT
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2006
ACM
Relevance Feedback is an important way to enhance retrieval quality by integrating relevance information provided by a user. In XML retrieval, feedback engines usually generate an ...
EDBT
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2006
ACM
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate Hermes, a robust framework capable of aiding a spatio-temporal database developer in modeling, constructing and querying a database with dyn...
EDBT
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2006
ACM
Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...
EDBT
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2006
ACM
Abstract. We consider a collaboration of peers autonomously crawling the Web. A pivotal issue when designing a peer-to-peer (P2P) Web search engine in this environment is query rou...
EDBT
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2006
ACM
Abstract. Sensor networks monitor physical phenomena over large geographic regions. Scientists can gain valuable insight into these phenomena, if they understand the underlying dat...
EDBT
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2006
ACM
We present STRIDER1 , a versatile system for the disambiguation of structure-based information like XML schemas, structures of XML documents and web directories. The system perform...
EDBT
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2006
ACM
Nowadays XML is universally accepted as the standard for structural data representation; XML databases, providing structural querying support, are thus becoming more and more popul...
EDBT
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2006
ACM
A database schema should be able to evolve to reflect changes to the universe it represents. In existing systems, user transactions get blocked during complex schema transformation...
EDBT
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2006
ACM
Abstract. Comparison of images requires a distance metric that is sensitive to the spatial location of objects and features. Such sensitive distance measures can, however, be compu...
EDBT
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2006
ACM
Abstract. Target search in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems refers to finding a specific (target) image such as a particular registered logo or a specific historical ph...