Abstract. The intention of this paper is to present HEAVEN, a solution of intelligent management of large-scale datasets held on tertiary storage systems. We introduce the common s...
Abstract. Many different index structures have been proposed for spatial databases to support efficient query processing. However, most of these index structures suffer from an exp...
Abstract. We study the following problem in a sovereign informationsharing setting: How to ensure that the individual participants, driven solely by self-interest, will behave hone...
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...
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...