Given a set of N multi-dimensional points, we study the computation of -quantiles according to a ranking function F, which is provided by the user at runtime. Specifically, F compu...
Abstract— Developing a full-fledged cost-based XQuery optimizer is a fairly complex task. Nowadays, there is little knowledge concerning suitable cost formulae and optimization ...
: KANSEI is a Japanese term which means psychological feeling or image of a product. KANSEI engineering refers to the translation of consumers' psychological feeling about a p...
In standard text retrieval systems, the documents are gathered and indexed on a single server. In distributed information retrieval (DIR), the documents are held in multiple colle...
In this paper a novel system for image replica detection is presented. The system uses color-based descriptors in order to extract robust features for image representation. These ...