An important issue for federated systems of diverse data sources is optimizing cross-source queries, without building knowledge of individual sources into the optimizer. This pape...
This paper presents a search engine architecture, RETIN, aiming at retrieving complex categories in large image databases. For indexing, a scheme based on a two-step quantization ...
Philippe Henri Gosselin, Matthieu Cord, Sylvie Phi...
The distributed object group framework (DOGF) enables easier integration of distributed objects to healthcare home applications. This paper describes a healthcare information manag...
Overlapping and multi-version techniques are two popular frameworks that transform an ephemeral index into a multiple logical-tree structure in order to support versioning databas...
Sensor networks have been widely used to collect data about the environment. When analyzing data from these systems, people tend to ask exploratory questions--they want to find su...