We propose a novel approach to shape-based image retrieval that builds upon a similarity criterion which is based on the average point set distance. Compared to traditional techni...
1 We propose a new framework for the summarization of XML document properties called EXsum (Element-wise XML summarization), which can capture statistical information of all import...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have proven to be an efficient and successful mechanism for file sharing over the Internet. However, current P2P protocols have long worst case query...
Finding the best matching database target to a melodic query has been of great interest in the music IR world. The string alignment paradigm works well for this task when comparin...
The strong dynamics of peer-to-peer networks, coupled with the diversity of peer vocabularies, makes query processing in peer database systems a very challenging task. In this pape...