Spatial networks like transportation, power, and pipeline networks are a ubiquitous spatial concept in everyday life and play an important role for navigational and routing purpos...
We present a method for searching in an image database using a query image that is similar to the intended target. The query image may be a hand-drawn sketch or a (potentially low...
Charles E. Jacobs, Adam Finkelstein, David Salesin
Querying any information system requires the knowledge of some formal language, making it inaccessible to computer-na?ve potential users. We propose a new intuitive querying mecha...
In this paper, we investigate the problem of answering top-k queries via materialized views. We provide theoretical guarantees for the adequacy of a view to answer a top-k query, ...
In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference On Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS-04), Springer-Verlag LNAI 3055, pp. 203-216. c 2004 by Springer-Verlag. To model qu...