Multimedia Database Management Systems (MMDBMS) have to efficiently provide the specific functionalities required by time-dependent multimedia data types. During presentation play...
Traversals of heterogeneous object structures are the most common operations in schema-first applications where the three key issues are (1) separation of traversal specifications ...
Existing work in the skyline literature focuses on optimizing the processing cost. This paper aims at minimization of the communication overhead in client-server architectures, wh...
In this paper, we study the evaluation of skyline queries with partially-ordered attributes. Because such attributes lack a total ordering, traditional index-based evaluation algo...
In this paper, we propose a method for 3D-model retrieval from one or more photos. This method provides an ”optimal” selection of 2D views to represent a 3D-model, and a proba...