Searching for images by using low-level visual features, such as color and texture, is known to be a powerful, yet imprecise, retrieval paradigm. The same is true if search relies...
An important way of making interfaces usable by nonexpert users is to enable the use of natural language input, as in natural language query interfaces to databases, or MUDs and M...
Abstract-- We investigate techniques to automatically decompose any XQuery query into subqueries, that can be executed near their data sources; i.e., function-shipping. In this sce...
Traditional image retrieval methods require a "query image" to initiate a search for members of an image category. However, when the image database is unstructured, and ...
Consider a scenario where Jane is at an airport. She wants to find a restaurant with healthy food and short waiting time on the way to her terminal. The airport can provide such s...