Information retrieval (IR) is a field that has been developing in parallel with database systems for many years. Unlike the field of database systems, which has targeted query and transaction processing of structured data, information retrieval is concerned with the organization and retrieval of data from multiple text-based documents.Since information ... Read More

There are several challenging issues regarding the construction and utilization of spatial data warehouses. The first challenge is the unification of spatial information from heterogeneous sources and systems. Spatial data are usually stored in different industry firms and government agencies using various data formats.Data formats are not only structure-specific (e.g., ... Read More

A spatial database saves a huge amount of space-related data, including maps, preprocessed remote sensing or medical imaging records, and VLSI chip design data. Spatial databases have several features that distinguish them from relational databases. They carry topological and/or distance information, usually organized by sophisticated, multidimensional spatial indexing structures that ... Read More

An object identifier can be generalized as follows. First, the object identifier is generalized to the identifier of the lowest subclass to which the object belongs. The identifier of this subclass can then, in turn, be generalized to a higher level class/subclass identifier by climbing up the class/subclass hierarchy. Similarly, ... Read More

Multi-relational clustering is the process of partitioning data objects into a set of clusters based on their similarity, utilizing information in multiple relations. In this section, it can introduce CrossClus (Cross-relational Clustering with user guidance), an algorithm for multi-relational clustering that explores how to utilize user guidance in clustering and ... Read More

Multi-relational data mining (MRDM) methods search for designs that contain several tables (relations) from a relational database. Each table or relation represents an entity or a relationship, described by a set of attributes. Links between relations show the relationship between them.There is one method to apply traditional data mining methods ... Read More

There are several challenges of link mining which are as follows −Logical versus statistical dependencies − Two types of dependencies reside in the graph link structures (representing the logical relationship between objects) and probabilistic dependencies (representing statistical relationships, such as the correlation between attributes of objects where, generally, such objects ... Read More

There are several tasks of link mining which are as follows −Link-based object classification − In traditional classification approaches, objects are classified depending on the attributes that define them. Link-based classification predicts the category of an object depends not only on its attributes, but also on its links, and the ... Read More

A social network is a heterogeneous and multi-relational information set described by a graph. The graph is generally very large, with nodes corresponding to objects and edges corresponding to connections describing relationships or connections between objects. Both nodes and connections have attributes. Objects can have class labels. Links can be ... Read More

The discovery of frequent substructures usually consists of two steps. In the first step, it can make frequent substructure candidates. The frequency of every candidate is tested in the second step. Most studies on frequent substructure discovery focus on the optimization of the first step because the second step involves ... Read More