We present a report about our participation in the ImageCLEF photo task 2006 and a short description of our new framework for future use in further CLEF participations....
In this paper, an effective content-based visual image retrieval system is presented. This system consists of two main components: visual content extraction and indexing, and quer...
Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) are a natural extension of heterogeneous database systems. One of the main tasks in such systems is efficient query processing. Insisting on co...
Data intensive applications on clusters often require requests quickly be sent to the node managing the desired data. In many applications, one must look through a sorted tree str...
We consider a problem that arises during the propagation of subscriptions in a contentbased publish-subscribe system. Subscription covering is a promising optimization that reduce...