Search operations in databases require some special support at the physical level. This is true for conventional databases as well as for spatial databases, where typical search o...
—We investigate the problem of retrieving similar shapes from a large database; in particular, we focus on medical tumor shapes (“Find tumors that are similar to a given patter...
In this paper, we have developed a HiTi (Hierarchical MulTi) graph model for structuring large topographical road maps to the minimum cost route computation. The HiTi graph model p...
In this paper, we present the results of our work that seek to negotiate the gap between low-level features and high-level concepts in the domain of web document retrieval. This wo...
Current search engines can hardly cope adequately with fuzzy predicates defined by complex preferences. The biggest problem of search engines implemented with standard SQL is that...