Distributed databases operating over wide-area networks such as the Internet, must deal with the unpredictable nature of the performance of communication. The response times of acc...
Laurent Amsaleg, Michael J. Franklin, Anthony Toma...
Abstract. The task of similarity search in multimedia databases is usually accomplished by range or k nearest neighbor queries. However, the expressing power of these "single-...
The usefulness of a video database relies on whether the video of interest can be easily located. To allow exploring, browsing, and retrieving videos according to their visual con...
Yap-Peng Tan, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Peter J. Ramadg...
As the Web provides rich data embedded in the immense contents inside pages, we witness many ad-hoc efforts for exploiting fine granularity information across Web text, such as We...
Sensor networks, that consist of potentially several thousands of nodes each with sensing (heat, sound, light, magnetism, etc.) and wireless communication capabilities, provide gr...