Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...
This paper introduces the Multimodal Multi-view Integrated Database (MMID), which holds human activities in presentation situations. MMID contains audio, video, human body motions...
Yuichi Nakamura, Yoshifumi Kimura, Y. Yu, Yuichi O...
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...
Textual fields are commonly used in databases and applications to capture details that are difficult to formalize—comments, notes, and product descriptions. With the rise of t...
In the study of data exchange one usually assumes an openworld semantics, making it possible to extend instances of target schemas. An alternative closed-world semantics only move...