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FOIS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
An Ontology for Grounding Vague Geographic Terms
Many geographic terms, such as "river" and "lake", are vague, with no clear boundaries of application. In particular, the spatial extent of such features is oft...
Brandon Bennett, David Mallenby, Allan Third
GIR
2006
ACM
16 years 23 days ago
Handling Locations in Search Engine Queries
This paper proposes simple techniques for handling place references in search engine queries, an important aspect of geographical information retrieval. We address not only the de...
Bruno Martins, Mário J. Silva, Sérgi...
APPT
2003
Springer
16 years 1 days ago
Optimal Broadcast Channel for Data Dissemination in Mobile Database Environment
The increase number of mobile users in wireless environment affects query access time substantially. To minimise the query access time, one possible way is to employ data broadcast...
Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Bala Srinivasan, David Tan...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
225views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 7 months ago
From complete to incomplete information and back
Incomplete information arises naturally in numerous data management applications. Recently, several researchers have studied query processing in the context of incomplete informat...
Lyublena Antova, Christoph Koch, Dan Olteanu
ICDE
2001
IEEE
106views Database» more  ICDE 2001»
16 years 8 months ago
Querying XML Documents Made Easy: Nearest Concept Queries
Due to the ubiquity and popularity of XML, users often are in the following situation: they want to query XML documents which contain potentially interesting information but they ...
Albrecht Schmidt 0002, Martin L. Kersten, Menzo Wi...