In this paper, we address the problem of database selection for XML document collections, that is, given a set of collections and a user query, how to rank the collections based o...
ended abstract reports on on-going work exploring the addition of a certain degree of control over expressivity in a unit selection context. Rather than merely choosing one unit se...
The paper considers an interactive search paradigm in which at each round a user is presented with a set of k images and is required to select one that is closest to her target. P...
Data mining on large relational databases has gained popularity and its significance is well recognized. However, the performance of SQL based data mining is known to fall behind ...
To allow efficient browsing of large image collections, we have to provide a summary of its visual content. We present in this paper a robust approach to organize image databases:...