Space requirement for storing indexes and performance for query processing are two critical issues in music information retrieval (MIR) system. To overcome difficulties in variabl...
After introducing some basic concepts of Web services and the definition of their relationships, we formally define the problem of managing and retrieving of Web services. This pa...
This is the first year for the Centre for Interactive Systems Research participation of INEX. Based on a newly developed XML indexing and retrieval system on Okapi, we extend Robe...
Most image retrieval systems only allow a fragment of text or an example image as a query. Most users have more complex information needs that are not easily expressed in either of...
Compressed domain image retrieval allows image indexing to be performed directly on the compressed data without the need of decoding. This approach hence provides a significant ga...