In this paper, we focus on an aspect of distributed XQuery processing that involves data exchanges between processor elements. We first address problems of distributed XML query p...
Makoto Yui, Jun Miyazaki, Shunsuke Uemura, Hirokaz...
A mediator system is a kind of a meta-search engine that provides a seamlessly integrated search service for diverse search engines (collections). Since collections of a mediator ...
Existing work on multiway spatial joins focuses on the retrieval of all exact solutions with no time limit for query processing. Depending on the query and data properties, however...
For an increasing number of modern database applications, efficient support of similarity search becomes an important task. Along with the complexity of the objects such as images...
Browsing and finding pictures in large-scale and heterogeneous collections is an important issue, most particularly for online photo sharing applications. Since such services know...