Abstract. MPEG-7 is a promising standard for the description of multimedia content. A lot of applications based on MPEG-7 media descriptions have been set up. Therefore, an efficie...
We design and implement FD-Buffer, a buffer manager for database systems running on flash-based disks. Unlike magnetic disks, flash media has an inherent read-write asymmetry: w...
Sai Tung On, Yinan Li, Bingsheng He, Ming Wu, Qion...
The goal of this work is to improve the accuracy (precision and recall) and communication effectiveness of a database system response to a user information request, by utilizing a...
User generated content and social media (in the form of blogs, wikis, online video, microblogs, etc) are proliferating online. Grapevine conducts large scale data analysis on the ...
Albert Angel, Nick Koudas, Nikos Sarkas, Divesh Sr...
In this paper, we present our approach to the problem of communicating everyday experiences. This is a challenging problem, since media from everyday events are unstructured, and ...