This paper represents the first participation of the Institute of Statistical Studies and Research at Cairo University group in CLEF 2009-Medical image retrieval track. Our system...
Keyword search is an effective approach for most users to search for information because they do not need to learn complex query languages or the underlying structures of the data....
In several image applications, it is necessary to retrieve specific line segments born a potentially very large set. In this paper, we consider the problem of indexing straight li...
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...
Bit arrays, or bitmaps, are used to significantly speed up set operations in several areas, such as data warehousing, information retrieval, and data mining, to cite a few. Howeve...