Analytical queries defined on data warehouses are complex and use several join operations that are very costly, especially when run on very large data volumes. To improve response...
The large unstructured text collections demand full-text search capabilities from IR systems. Current systems typically allow users only to connect to a single database (or site) ...
In many applications, we find large video collections from different genres where the user is often only interested in one or two specific video genres. So, when users are queryin...
Abstract. The optimized distance-based access methods currently available for multidimensional indexing in multimedia databases have been developed based on two major assumptions: ...
Anne H. H. Ngu, Quan Z. Sheng, Du Q. Huynh, Ron Le...
Efficient evaluation of similarity queries is one of the basic requirements for advanced multimedia applications. In this paper, we consider the relevant case where complex similar...