As more and more structured documents, such as SGML or XML documents become available on the Web, there is a growing demand to develop effective structured document retrieval which...
In a video database, large amount of information involving video, audio, and/or images needs to be stored and managed. Therefore, there is an important need for novel techniques a...
We present an efficient prototype for music information retrieval. The prototype uses bitparallel algorithms for locating transposition invariant matches of monophonic query melod...
This paper introduces the concept of a Parameterised Search System (PSS), which allows flexibility in user queries, and, more importantly, allows system engineers to easily defin...
A lot of research has been conducted by the database community on methods and techniques for efficient XPath processing, with great success. Despite the progress made, significant...