We study the problem of continuous monitoring of top-k queries over multiple non-synchronized streams. Assuming a sliding window model, this general problem has been a well addres...
A multi-object operation incurs communication or synchronization overhead when the requested objects are distributed over different nodes. The object pair correlations (the probab...
Users’ cross-lingual queries to a digital library system might be short and not included in a common translation dictionary (unknown terms). In this paper, we investigate the fe...
Popular image retrieval schemes generally rely only on a single mode, (either low level visual features or embedded text) for searching in multimedia databases. Many popular image...
Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery have gained immense importance in the wake of recent man and nature inflicted calamities. A critical problem in a crisis situation is how t...
Li Zheng, Chao Shen, Liang Tang, Tao Li, Steven Lu...