The goal of data fusion is to combine several representations of one real world object into a single, consistent representation, e.g., in data integration. A very popular operator...
Many database applications have the emerging need to support fuzzy queries that ask for strings that are similar to a given string, such as “name similar to smith” and “tele...
In this paper, we propose a novel transductive learning framework named manifold-ranking based image retrieval (MRBIR). Given a query image, MRBIR first makes use of a manifold ra...
Multidimensional Analysis and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) uses summary information that requires aggregate operations along one or more dimensions of numerical data value...
The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...