TPR-tree is a practical index structure for moving object databases. Due to the uniform distribution assumption, TPR-tree’s bulk loading algorithm (TPR) is relatively inefficie...
Aim of the paper is to develop a concise but comprehensive analytical model for the well-known Grace Hash Join algorithm on cost effective cluster architectures. This approach is ...
Peer-to-peer systems are gaining popularity as a means to effectively share huge, massively distributed data collections. In this paper, we consider XML peers, that is, peers that ...
This paper introduces a very compact yet discriminative video description, which allows example-based search in a large number of frames corresponding to thousands of hours of vide...
Abstract—We present the query-by-description (QBD) component of “Kandem,” a time-aware music retrieval system. The QBD system we describe learns a relation between descriptiv...