: Generic systems for content-based image retrieval (CBIR), such as QBIC [7] cannot be used to solve domain-specific image retrieval problems, as for example, the identification of...
Current Web search engines generally impose link analysis-based re-ranking on web-page retrieval. However, the same techniques, when applied directly to small web search such as i...
Processing large data streams is now a major topic in data management. The data involved can be truly massive, and the required analyses complex. In a stream of sequential events ...
Cache locality optimization is an efficient way for reducing the idle time of modern processors in waiting for needed data. This kind of optimization can be achieved either on the...
A natural consequence of the widespread adoption of XML as standard for information representation and exchange is the redundant storage of large amounts of persistent XML documen...