In information retrieval, queries can fail to find documents due to mismatch in terminology. Query expansion is a well-known technique addressing this problem, where additional q...
In this paper, we explore the help of visual features to cross-language image retrieval. We propose an approach that transforms textual queries into visual representations. The re...
Many applications require to determine the k-nearest neighbors for multiple query points simultaneously. This task is known as all-(k)-nearest-neighbor (AkNN) query. In this paper,...
Tobias Emrich, Franz Graf, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Mat...
This paper approaches the incremental view maintenance problem from an algebraic perspective. We construct a ring of databases and use it as the foundation of the design of a quer...
In 'Associative Caching' each client computer keeps a copy of its query result sets in its own local database. The purpose is to reduce the size and frequency of queries ...