Abstract. We propose a mediator model for providing integrated and unified access to multiple taxonomy-based sources. Each source comprises a taxonomy and a database that indexes o...
Yannis Tzitzikas, Nicolas Spyratos, Panos Constant...
Despite the existence of obstacles in many database applications, traditional spatial query processing utilizes the Euclidean distance metric assuming that points in space are dire...
Jun Zhang, Dimitris Papadias, Kyriakos Mouratidis,...
This paper presents the results of the second test phase of the RIMES1 evaluation campaign. The latter is the first large-scale evaluation campaign intended to all the key players...
Compressed bitmap indexes are increasingly used for efficiently querying very large and complex databases. The Word Aligned Hybrid (WAH) bitmap compression scheme is commonly rec...
The importance of topological relationships between spatial objects is recognized in many disciplines. In the field of spatial databases, topological relationships have played an ...