Computing preference queries has received a lot of attention in the database community. It is common that the user is unsure of his/her preference, so care must be taken to elicit...
Feng Zhao, Gautam Das, Kian-Lee Tan, Anthony K. H....
In this paper, an efficient video content representation is proposed using optimal extraction of characteristic frames and scenes. This representation, apart from providing browsi...
Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Anastasios D. Doulamis, Yann...
The typical mode for querying in an image content-based information system is query-by-example, which allows the user to provide an image as a query and to search for similar imag...
We present MOCHA, a new self-extensible database middleware system designed to interconnect distributed data sources. MOCHA is designed to scale to large environments and is based...
In this paper, we address the server selection problem for streaming applications on the Internet. The architecture we consider is similar to the content distribution networks con...