Today’s medical institutions produce enormous amounts of data on patients, including multimedia data, which is increasingly produced in digital form. These data in their clinica...
Abstract Compressed domain image retrieval is going to play an increasingly important role in the future. It allows the calculation of image features and hence content-based image ...
— Databases associated with keywords, can be public, private or hybrid, as a result the solutions to keyword search protocols for each type are different. In this paper, we study...
We describe a (meta) formalism for defining a variety of (object oriented) data models in a unified framework based on a variation of first-order logic. As specific example we use...
Overlay networks (proxy networks) have been used as a communication infrastructure to allow applications to communicate with users without revealing their IP addresses. Such proxy...