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...
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, ...
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,...
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...
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...