Schemas, and more generally metadata specifying structural and semantic constraints, are invaluable in data management. They facilitate conceptual design and enable checking of da...
Peter M. Fischer, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Ren&eacu...
In this paper we propose a method to retrieve sketches stored in the form of multiple strokes, by extracting the shape information for each stroke and by considering the spatial r...
Researchers are currently more interested in searching for fragments that are similar to a query, than a total data item that is similar to a query; the search interest is for &qu...
Punpiti Piamsa-nga, Nikitas A. Alexandridis, Sanan...
In applications of biometric databases the typical task is to identify individuals according to features which are not exactly known. Reasons for this inexactness are varying meas...
An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in Web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. To save the user's effort in manually exploring eac...