We study the problem of generating e cient, equivalent rewritings using views to compute the answer to a query. We take the closed-world assumption, in which views are materialize...
Due to the enormous increase in the stored digital contents, search and retrieval functionalities are necessary in multimedia systems. Though processor speed for standard PCs (Per...
: Indexing video content is one of the most important problems in video databases. In this paper we present linear time and space algorithms for handling video metadata that repres...
Spyros Sioutas, Kostas Tsichlas, Bill Vassiliadis,...
In a current project, customers are attracted by a video streaming application. A video camera records people passing by, and a monitor shows an alienated version of the setting a...
There has been an explosion of hyperlinked data in many domains, e.g., the biological Web. Expressive query languages and effective ranking techniques are required to convert this...