The Multimedia Internet Terminal (MINT)1 is a flexible multimedia tool set that allows the establishment and control of multimedia sessions across the Internet. The system archit...
With the development of inexpensive storage devices, space usage is no longer a bottleneck for computer users. However, the increasingly large amount of personal information poses ...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
The fact that graphics processors (GPUs) are today’s most powerful computational hardware for the dollar has motivated researchers to utilize the ubiquitous and powerful GPUs fo...
Nowadays, decision support systems are evolving in order to handle complex data. Some recent works have shown the interest of combining on-line analysis processing (OLAP) and data...
Riadh Ben Messaoud, Omar Boussaid, Sabine Rabas&ea...