Abstract. Given two datasets DA and DB the closest-pair query (CPQ) retrieves the pair (a,b), where a ∈ DA and b ∈ DB, having the smallest distance between all pairs of objects...
Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Alexandros Nanopoulos, ...
Video is increasingly important to digital libraries and archives as both primary content and as context for the primary objects in collections. Services like YouTube not only off...
Gary Marchionini, Chirag Shah, Christopher A. Lee,...
As the Extensible Markup Language (XML) rapidly establishes itself as the de facto standard for presenting, storing, and exchanging data on the Internet, large volume of XML data ...
Some recent works have shown that the “perfect” selection of the best IR system per query could lead to a significant improvement on the retrieval performance. Motivated by thi...
In the last several years, large multi-dimensional databases have become common in a variety of applications such as data warehousing and scientific computing. Analysis and explor...