The initiative of standardization of MPEG Query Format (MPQF) has refueled the research around the definition of a unified query language for digital content. The goal is to provi...
The application of structured overlay networks to implement index structures for data-oriented applications such as peer-to-peer databases or peer-to-peer information retrieval, r...
Karl Aberer, Anwitaman Datta, Manfred Hauswirth, R...
In this paper, we introduce and evaluate two novel approaches, one using video stream and the other using close-caption text stream, for segmenting TV news into stories. The segmen...
Hemant Misra, Frank Hopfgartner, Anuj Goyal, P. Pu...
It has recently been asserted that the usability of a database is as important as its capability. Understanding the database schema, the hidden relationships among attributes in t...
Quoc Trung Tran, Chee-Yong Chan, Srinivasan Partha...
Distributed databases and other networked information systems use copies or mirrors to reduce latency and to increase availability. Copies need to be refreshed. In a loosely coupl...