Sciweavers

2944 search results - page 424 / 589
» On Indexed Data Broadcast
Sort
View
VLDB
2002
ACM
124views Database» more  VLDB 2002»
16 years 6 months ago
Efficient retrieval of similar shapes
Abstract. We propose an indexing technique for the fast retrieval of objects in 2D images based on similarity between their boundary shapes. Our technique is robust in the presence...
Davood Rafiei, Alberto O. Mendelzon
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
141views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 6 months ago
SGL: a scalable language for data-driven games
We propose to demonstrate SGL, a language and system for writing computer games using data management techniques. We will demonstrate a complete game built using the system, and s...
Robert Albright, Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, ...
EDBT
2004
ACM
126views Database» more  EDBT 2004»
16 years 6 months ago
Spatial Queries in the Presence of Obstacles
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,...
DCC
2004
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Fast Compression with a Static Model in High-Order Entropy
We report on a simple encoding format called wzip for decompressing block-sorting transforms, such as the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT). Our compressor uses the simple notions o...
Luca Foschini, Roberto Grossi, Ankur Gupta, Jeffre...
HICSS
2010
IEEE
166views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2010»
16 years 1 months ago
Spatial Variation in Search Engine Results
Geographic information retrieval (GIR) is, as a branch of traditional information retrieval, a discipline that tries to enrich data with geographical information to make it suitab...
David Noack