We present a data model for movies and movie databases. A movie is considered to be a 2-dimensional semialgebraic figure that can change in time. We give a number of computabilit...
Annotated speech corpora are databases consisting of signal data along with time-aligned symbolic ‘transcriptions’. Such databases are typically multidimensional, heterogeneou...
Query-by-tapping systems are content-based music retrieval systems that allow users to tap or clap in a microphone the rhythmic pattern of the melody requested. In this paper, a n...
Whenever a client frequently has to retrieve, to query and to locally transform large parts of a huge XML document that is stored on a remote web information server, data exchange...
This paper describes a new XML compression scheme that offers both high compression ratios and short query response time. Its core is a fully reversible transform featuring substit...