Web search engines are often presented with user queries that involve comparisons of real-world entities. Thus far, this interaction has typically been captured by users submittin...
Many applications in structure matching require the ability to search for graphs that are similar to a query graph, i.e., similarity graph queries. Prior works, especially in chem...
Today, there are several approaches supporting an integrated processing of XML and (object-)relational data sources. However, each of these approaches favors a single data model f...
Querying live media streams is a challenging problem that is becoming an essential requirement in a growing number of applications. Research in multimedia information systems has ...
Adaptable similarity queries based on quadratic form distance functions are widely popular in data mining applications, particularly for domains such as multimedia, CAD, molecular ...