February 2012

Optimization of spatial join using constraints based- clustering techniques

  Spatial joins are used to combine the spatial objects. The efficient processing depends upon the spatial queries. The execution time and input/output (I/O) time of spatial queries are crucial, because the spatial objects are very large and have several relations. In this article, we use several techniques to improve the efficiency of the spatial join; 1. We use R*-trees for spatial queries since R*-trees are...

Author(s): V. Pattabiraman

February 2012

New approaches to automatic headline generation for Arabic documents

  A headline is considered a condensed summary of a document. The necessity for automatic headline generation has been on the rise due to the need to handle a huge number of documents, which is a tedious and time-consuming process. Instead of reading every document, the headline can be used to decide which ones contain important and relevant information. There are two major approaches to automatic headline...

Author(s): Fahad Alotaiby, Salah Foda and Ibrahim Alkharashi