Sociologists, demographers, and economists often use the index of dissimilarity, D, to describe the extent of racial, ethnic, spatial, or areal dissimilarity (or segregation) of d...
Madhuri S. Mulekar, John C. Knutson, Jyoti A. Cham...
Sequence-based XML indexing aims at avoiding expensive join operations in query processing. It transforms structured XML data into sequences so that a structured query can be answ...
Web object is defined to represent any meaningful object embedded in web pages (e.g. images, music) or pointed to by hyperlinks (e.g. downloadable files). Users usually search for...
In many classification and data-mining applications the user does not know a priori which distance measure is the most appropriate for the task at hand without examining the produ...
Abstract. The unprecedented growth and increased importance of geographically distributed spatial data has created a strong need for efficient sharing of such data. Interestingly, ...