This paper shows the suitability of a "self-maintaining" approach to Tertiary Disk, a large-scale disk array system built from commodity components. Instead of incurring...
The Informedia Digital Library Project [Wactlar96] allows full content indexing and retrieval of text, audio and video material. Segmentation is an integral process in the Informe...
Users often can not easily express their queries. For example, in a multimedia image by content setting, the user might want photographs with sunsets; in current systems, like QBI...
Mobile devices are increasingly powerful in media storage and rendering. The prevalent request of decent video browsing on mobile devices is demanding. However, one limitation com...
Cache groups are a powerful concept for database caching, which is used to relieve the backend database load and to keep referenced data close to the application programs at the &q...