The UQBE is a mashup tool for non-programmers that supports query-by-example (QBE) over a schema made up by the user without knowing the schema of the original sources. Based on a...
The growing acceptance of XML as a standard for semi-structured documents on the Web opens up challenging opportunities for Web query languages. In this paper we introduce XML-GL,...
Stefano Ceri, Sara Comai, Ernesto Damiani, Piero F...
The usefulness of a video database relies on whether the video of interest can be easily located. To allow exploring, browsing, and retrieving videos according to their visual con...
Yap-Peng Tan, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Peter J. Ramadg...
There has been much recent progress in the technical infrastructure necessary to continuously characterize and archive all sounds, or more precisely auditory streams, that occur w...
Jiachen Xue, Gordon Wichern, Harvey D. Thornburg, ...
This paper describes an audio retrieval system,Quebex,that works on raw audio data. The system is able to retrieve songs that are rhythmically and timbrewise similar from a databa...