Self-managing solutions have recently attracted a lot of interest from the database community. The need for self-* properties is more evident in distributed applications comprising...
Abstract. In this paper we report results of experiments conducted with strategies for improving text-based image retrieval. The adopted strategies were evaluated in the photograph...
In this paper, we address the problem of designing a scalable, accurate query processor for peerto-peer filesharing and similar distributed keyword search systems. Using a global...
Boon Thau Loo, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch...
An unstructured peer network application was proposed to address the query forwarding problem of distributed search engines and scalability limitations of centralized search engin...
We extend an approach to search inside large-scale music collections by enabling the user to give feedback on the retrieved music pieces. In the original approach, a search engine ...