In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...
In image retrieval, most existing approaches that incorporate local features produce high dimensional vectors, which lead to a high computational and data storage cost. Moreover, ...
Owing to the recent development of digital broadcasting technology such as Satellite, CATV, the Internet and the expansion of the network systems, the amount of video data we can ...
In this paper we are interested in describing Web pages by how users interact within their contents. Thus, an alternate but complementary way of labelling and classifying Web docu...
In a federated digital library system, it is too expensive to query every accessible library. Resource selection is the task to decide to which libraries a query should be routed....