Spatial Database Management Systems (SDBMS), e.g., Geographical Information Systems, that manage spatial objects such as points, lines, and hyper-rectangles, often have very high ...
The similarity join is an important database primitive which has been successfully applied to speed up applications such as similarity search, data analysis and data mining. The s...
Due to the large difference between seek time and transfer time in current disk technology, it is advantageous to perform large I/O using a single sequential access rather than mu...
Nearest neighbor (NN) queries have been extended from Euclidean spaces to road networks. Existing approaches are either based on Dijkstra-like network expansion or NN/distance prec...
Schema mapping algorithms rely on value correspondences ? i.e., correspondences among semantically related attributes ? to produce complex transformations among data sources. Thes...