Nearest neighbor queries are important in many settings, including spatial databases (Find the k closest cities) and multimedia databases (Find the k most similar images). Previou...
Skyline queries have attracted considerable attention over the last few years, mainly due to their ability to return interesting objects without the need for user-defined scoring f...
Bitmap indices have been widely used in several domains such as data warehousing and scientific applications due to their efficiency in answering certain query types over large ...
Guadalupe Canahuate, Michael Gibas, Hakan Ferhatos...
A combination of query-by-visual-example (QBVE) and semantic retrieval (SR), denoted as query-by-semantic-example (QBSE), is proposed. Images are labeled with respect to a vocabula...
Nikhil Rasiwasia, Nuno Vasconcelos, Pedro J. Moren...
Event processing systems have wide applications ranging from managing events from RFID readers to monitoring RSS feeds. Consequently, there exists much work on them in the literat...
Walker M. White, Mirek Riedewald, Johannes Gehrke,...