Excessive buffer requirement to handle continuous-media playbacks is an impediment to costeffective provisioning for on-line video retrieval. Given the skewed distribution of video...
One of the most challenging aspects of managing a very large data warehouse is identifying how queries will behave before they start executing. Yet knowing their performance charac...
Archana Ganapathi, Harumi A. Kuno, Umeshwar Dayal,...
This paper argues that effective management of patient image data can enhance patient care. It examines the workflow and information flows involved in the search for image based d...
We present a browser-extending Semantic Web extraction system that maps HTML documents to tables and, where possible, to rules. First, the basic data extractor ViPER distills and ...
There is a manifold of meanings we could associate with the term \evolution" in the database arena. This paper tries to categorize some of these into a unique framework, showi...