This paper addresses the efficient processing of top-k queries in wide-area distributed data repositories where the index lists for the attribute values (or text terms) of a query...
Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafillou, Gerhard Wei...
As the number of resources on the Grid tends to be very dynamic and potentially large, it becomes increasingly important to discover and monitor them efficiently. This paper conce...
Helene N. Lim Choi Keung, Justin R. D. Dyson, Step...
With the proliferation of image data, the need to search and retrieve images efficiently and accurately from a large image database or a collection of image databases has drastica...
Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui ...
Recent interests on XML, Semantic Web, and Web ontology, among other topics, have sparked a renewed interest on graph-structured databases. A fundamental query on graphs is the re...
Online monitoring of data streams poses a challenge in many data-centric applications, such as telecommunications networks, traffic management, trend-related analysis, webclick st...