An important research issue in multimedia databases is the retrieval of similar objects. For most applications in multimedia databases, an exact search is not meaningful. Thus, mu...
Abstract. In this paper we study interfaces for image retrieval systems. Current image retrieval interfaces are limited to providing query facilities and result presentation. The u...
Abstract: Some emerging trends in the recent development of the WWW can be observed. These trends are technical, like Web Services, as well as semantic, like the integration of ont...
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
Matching and searching computations play an important role in the indexing of data. These computations are typically encoded in very tight loops with a single index variable and a...