Most of the existing image retrieval systems take the textual query from the user and utilize the metadata associated with the database images to retrieve the result. However, the...
A lot of the world’s knowledge is stored in books, which, as a result of recent mass-digitisation efforts, are increasingly available online. Search engines, such as Google Book...
Semantically heterogeneous and distributed data sources are quite common in several application domains such as bioinformatics and security informatics. In such a setting, each dat...
In the study of information flow in the nervous system, component processes can be investigated using a range of electrophysiological and imaging techniques. Although data is diff...
Search engines use inverted files as index data structures to speed up the solution of user queries. The index is distributed on a set of processors forming a cluster of computer...