The high quality, structured data from Web structured sources is invaluable for many applications. Hidden Web databases are not directly crawlable by Web search engines and are on...
Many online or local data sources provide powerful querying mechanisms but limited ranking capabilities. For instance, PubMed allows users to submit highly expressive Boolean keywo...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Vagelis Hristidis, Yuheng...
Abstract. Multimedia presentations and their applications are becoming more and more popular in most spheres of industry and everyday life. A database approach could help in queryi...
Zhiyong Huang, Binjia Jiao, B. Prabhakaran, Conrad...
This paper focuses on the problem of improving distributed query throughput of the RDBMS-based data integration system that has to inherit the query execution model of the underly...
Querying live media streams is a challenging problem that is becoming an essential requirement in a growing number of applications. Research in multimedia information systems has ...