Cartography is one of the major application areas using geographical databases. Whether it is for the business of producing paper maps for sale, or whether it is for displaying map...
This panel introduces and explains the "future directions" and "broadening" discussions at the VLDB Endowment. Panelists are Michael Brodie, Stefano Ceri, Umes...
Abstract. The DRAGOS database eases the development of graphbased applications by providing a uniform graph-oriented data storage facility. In this paper, we extend the existing da...
We present a novel method for the automatic generalization of land cover maps. A land cover map is composed of areas that collectively form a tessellation of the plane and each ar...
We address the problem of integrating objects from a source taxonomy into a master taxonomy. This problem is not only currently pervasive on the web, but also important to the eme...