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ICIP
2002
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Fuzzy color signatures
With the large and increasing amount of visual information available in digital libraries and the Web, efficient and robust systems for image retrieval are urgently needed. In thi...
Andrés Dorado, Ebroul Izquierdo
P2P
2006
IEEE
229views Communications» more  P2P 2006»
16 years 22 days ago
Cost-Aware Processing of Similarity Queries in Structured Overlays
Large-scale distributed data management with P2P systems requires the existence of similarity operators for queries as we cannot assume that all users will agree on exactly the sa...
Marcel Karnstedt, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Manfred Hauswir...
JCDL
2005
ACM
98views Education» more  JCDL 2005»
16 years 8 days ago
Using collection descriptions to enhance an aggregation of harvested item-level metadata
As an increasing number of digital library projects embrace the harvesting of item-level descriptive metadata, issues of description granularity and concerns about potential loss ...
Muriel Foulonneau, Timothy W. Cole, Thomas G. Habi...
VLDB
2001
ACM
151views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
16 years 7 months ago
Approximate query mapping: Accounting for translation closeness
Abstract In this paper we present a mechanism for approximately translating Boolean query constraints across heterogeneous information sources. Achieving the best translation is ch...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Application Adaptation Through Transparent and Portable Object Mobility in Java
This paper describes MobJeX, an adaptive Java based application framework that uses a combination of pre-processing and runtime support to provide transparent object mobility (incl...
Caspar Ryan, Christopher Westhorpe