Search engines provide a small window to the vast repository of data they index and against which they search. They try their best to return the documents that are of relevance to...
We propose the mqr-tree, a two-dimensional spatial access method that improves upon the 2DR-tree. The 2DRtree uses two-dimensional nodes so that the relationships between all obje...
—Hardware advances will allow us to embed small devices into everyday objects such as toasters and coffee mugs, thus naturally form a wireless object network that connects the ob...
Abstract. The heterogeneity nature of XML data creates the need for approximate query answering. In this paper, we present an XML system that cooperates with users to provide user-...
An integrated, reconfigurable, adaptable and open system for mining, indexing and retrieving multimedia information based on a mobile agent technology scheme is presented. The sys...
Nikolaos Papadakis, Anastasios D. Doulamis, Dimitr...