There has been a significant amount of excitement and recent work on column-oriented database systems ("column-stores"). These database systems have been shown to perfor...
Virtually all proposals for querying XML include a class of query we term "containment queries". It is also clear that in the foreseeable future, a substantial amount of...
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Biomedical researchers rely on keyword-based search engines to retrieve superficially relevant documents, from which they must filter out irrelevant information manually. Hence, t...
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Large organizations with sophisticated infrastructures have large form-based systems that manage the interaction between the user community and the infrastructure. In many cases, ...
Security of multimedia files attracts more and more attention and many encryption methods have been proposed in literature. However most cryptographic systems deal with multimedia...
Paraskevi K. Tzouveli, Klimis S. Ntalianis, Stefan...