Search operations in databases require special support at the physical level. This is true for
conventional databases as well as spatial databases, where typical search operations …

During the last decade, multimedia databases have become increasingly important in many
application areas such as medicine, CAD, geography, and molecular biology. An important …

The area of similarity searching is a very hot topic for both research and c-mercial
applications. Current data processing applications use data with c-siderably less structure …

Spatial Databases is the first unified, in-depth treatment of special techniques for dealing
with spatial data, particularly in the field of geographic information systems (GIS). This book …

Due to the dynamic nature of vehicular traffic and the road surroundings, vehicle-to-vehicle
(V2V) propagation characteristics vary greatly on both small and large scale. Recent …

Space support in databases poses new challenges in every part of a database management
system & the capability of spatial support in the physical layer is considered very important …

DBSCAN (density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise) is an important spatial
clustering technique that is widely adopted in numerous applications. As the size of datasets …

We study a set of linear transformations on the Fourier series representation of a sequence
that can be used as the basis for similarity queries on time-series data. We show that our set …

Multimedia applications usually involve a large number of multimedia objects (texts, images,
sounds, etc.). Spatial and temporal relationships among these objects should be efficiently …

Although there are many advanced and specialized texts and handbooks on algorithms,
until now there was no book that focused exclusively on the wide variety of data structures …