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 development of effective content-based multimedia search systems is an important
research issue due to the growing amount of digital audio-visual information. In the case of …

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 …

Nearest neighbor search in high dimensional spaces is an interesting and important
problem which is relevant for a wide variety of novel database applications. As recent results …

Classification is one of the basic tasks of data mining in modern database applications
including molecular biology, astronomy, mechanical engineering, medical imaging or …

The central task for experience management is the retrieval of reusable experience. This
retrieval task requires additional knowledge besides the experience itself. It requires …

For an increasing number of modern database applications, efficient support of similarity
search becomes an important task. Along with the complexity of the objects such as images …

In this paper, we propose the Pyramid-Technique, a new indexing method for high-
dimensional data spaces. The Pyramid-Technique is highly adapted to range query …

With the continued proliferation of wireless communications and advances in positioning
technologies, algorithms for efficiently answering queries about large populations of moving …

Users often can not easily express their queries. For example, in a multimedia/image by
content setting, the user might want photographs with sunsets; in current systems, like QBIC …