Metric access methods (MAMs) serve as a tool for speeding similarity queries. However, all MAMs developed so far are index-based; they need to build an index on a given database. T...
The crawler engines of today cannot reach most of the information contained in the Web. A great amount of valuable information is "hidden" behind the query forms of onli...
The notion of time granularity comes into play in a variety of problems involving time representation and management in database applications, including temporal database design, t...
Clustering is an essential data mining task with various types of applications. Traditional clustering algorithms are based on a vector space model representation. A relational dat...
Data Quality has many dimensions one of which is accuracy. Accuracy is usually compromised by errors accidentally or intensionally introduced in a database system. These errors re...
Vassilios S. Verykios, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Elias ...