Contextual advertising supports much of the Web's ecosystem today. User experience and revenue (shared by the site publisher ad the ad network) depend on the relevance of the...
Many state-of-the-art selectivity estimation methods use query feedback to maintain histogram buckets, thereby using the limited memory efficiently. However, they are "reacti...
This paper represents the first participation of the Institute of Statistical Studies and Research at Cairo University group in CLEF 2009-Medical image retrieval track. Our system...
An important trend in Web information processing is the support of multimedia retrieval. However, the most prevailing paradigm for multimedia retrieval, content-based retrieval (C...
Commercial systems such as Flickr display interesting photos from their collection as an interaction mechanism for sampling the collection. It purely relies on social activity anal...