Conventional database systems are designed for managing textual and numerical data, and
retrieving such data is often based on simple comparisons of text/numerical values …

Video indexing and retrieval have a wide spectrum of promising applications, motivating the
interest of researchers worldwide. This paper offers a tutorial and an overview of the …

to carry out the operation.” Moores was referring to textual document retrieval, but his
description captures what an information retrieval system is expected to do, namely, help a …

Video retrieval is increasingly based on image content. A number of studies on video
retrieval have used low-level pixel content related to statistical moments, shape, colour and …

Cardinal directions are frequently used as selection criteria in spatial queries or for
assessing similarities of spatial scenes. Current models for cardinal directions use crude …

Investigates temporal changes of topological relationships and thereby integrates two
important research areas: first, 2D topological relationships that have been investigated …

We present the use of a novel spatio-temporal model checker to detect problems in the data
and operation of a collective adaptive system. Data correctness is important to ensure …

An example page taken from each document in a document database is processed by a
page processor to yield an iconic representation for the example page. To form the iconic …

Like people who casually assess similarity between spatial scenes in their routine activities,
users of pictorial databases are often interested in retrieving scenes that are similar to a …

The interplay between process behaviour and spatial aspects of computation has become
more and more relevant in Computer Science, especially in the field of collective adaptive …