Abstract. The similarity join has become an important database primitive to support similarity search and data mining. A similarity join combines two sets of complex objects such t...
Visual information processing technology is very important in the implementation for sensory substitution of visually impaired persons as well as applications to factory automatio...
The exponential rise in the number of Web users has inspired the creation of a diversity of Web applications. Hence, Web Quality of Service (QoS) is an increasingly critical issue ...
In many hierarchical companies, reports from several independent groups must be merged to form a single, companywide report. This paper describes a process and system for creating...
Huge masses of digital data about products, customers and competitors have become available for companies in the services sector. In order to exploit its inherent (and often hidde...