Large inverted indices are by now common in the construction of web-scale search engines. For faster access, inverted indices are indexed internally so that it is possible to skip...
Proximity searching consists in retrieving from a database, objects that are close to a query. For this type of searching problem, the most general model is the metric space, where...
Chemical processing of celluloid based cinematic film, becomes unstable with time, unless they are stored at low temperatures. Some defects, such as bleaching on color movies, are ...
Alessandro Rizzi, Carlo Gatta, C. Slanzi, Gianluig...
Coupling of cross-organizational business processes in electronic markets is a difficult and time-consuming task. In practice business processes are geographically distributed whic...
The rapid development of web image search engines has enabled users to search hundred million of images available on the Web. However, due to the unsatisfactory performance of cur...