The monitoring of emotional user states can help to assess the progress of human-machine-communication. If we look at specific databases, however, we are faced with several problem...
Anton Batliner, Christian Hacker, Stefan Steidl, E...
Advances in geographical information systems (GIS) and supporting data collection technology has resulted in the rapid collection of a huge amount of spatial data. However, known ...
—A major research subject in image databases is to support efficient and effective access to images based on their visual content. In color image databases, this requires to sup...
Alberto Del Bimbo, Mauro Mugnaini, Pietro Pala, F....
We propose a radical approach to relational query processing that aims at automatically and consistently achieving a good performance on any memory hierarchy. We believe this auto...
Queries describe the users' search intent and therefore they play an essential role in the context of ranking for information retrieval and Web search. However, most of exist...