With the growth of the Web, there has been a rapid increase in the number of users who need to access online databases without having a detailed knowledge of the schema or of quer...
In this paper we investigate how a small number of high-level concepts derived for video shots, such as Sports, Face, Indoor, etc., can be used effectively for ad hoc search in vi...
Quicklinks for a website are navigational shortcuts displayed below the website homepage on a search results page, and that let the users directly jump to selected points inside t...
Recently, there has been extensive research that generated a wealth of new XML full-text query languages, ranging from simple Boolean search to combining sophisticated proximity a...
We consider the problem of computing minimum geometric hitting sets in which, given a set of geometric objects and a set of points, the goal is to compute the smallest subset of p...