Similarity retrieval have been widely used in many practical search applications. A similarity query model can be viewed as a logical combination of a set of similarity predicates....
As XML information proliferates on the Web, searching XML information via a search engine is crucial to the experience of both casual and experienced Web users. The returned XML fr...
As medical image databases are connected together through PACS, those medical images may suffer from security breaches if not protected. If a medical image is illegally obtained o...
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems target database images using feature similarities with respect to the query. Our CBIR demonstration utilises novel illumination invari...
Abstract. A common approach to XML updates is to extend XQuery with update operations. This approach results in very expressive languages which are convenient for users but are dif...