Abstract. The study of databases began with the design of efficient storage and data sharing techniques for large amount of data. This paper concerns the processing of imprecision ...
: Online communities are islands of people and topics that are not interlinked. Complementary discussions exist on disparate systems but it is currently difficult to exploit the av...
John G. Breslin, Stefan Decker, Andreas Harth, Uld...
Given a dataset P, a k-means query returns k points in space (called centers), such that the average squared distance between each point in P and its nearest center is minimized. S...
Zhenjie Zhang, Yin Yang, Anthony K. H. Tung, Dimit...
In this paper, we propose an image semantic model based on the knowledge and criteria in the field of linguistics and taxonomy. Our work bridges the "semantic gap" by sea...
Xiaoyan Li, Lidan Shou, Gang Chen, Tianlei Hu, Jin...
The efficiency of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems is largely dependent on the overlay constructions. Due to the random selection of logical neighbors, there often exists serious topolog...