Modern techniques for distributed information retrieval use a set of documents sampled from each server, but these samples have been underutilised in server selection. We describe...
Motivated by sensor networks, we consider the fusion storage of correlated sources in a database, such that any subset of them may be efficiently retrieved in the future. Only st...
With the growth of digital music, content-based music retrieval (CBMR) has attracted increasingly attention. For most CBMR systems, the task is to return music objects similar to ...
Many modern natural language-processing applications utilize search engines to locate large numbers of Web documents or to compute statistics over the Web corpus. Yet Web search e...
Effective usage of multimedia digital libraries has to deal with the problem of building efficient content annotation and retrieval tools. MOM (Multimedia Ontology Manager) is a ...