In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm, called MQSchange (changes of Music Query Streams), to detect the changes of maximal melody structures in user-centered music quer...
Grid technologies have been developed in response to an increase in demand for computing applications designed to yield the benefits from collaboration, data sharing and sophistic...
Anastasios Gounaris, Norman W. Paton, Rizos Sakell...
Estimating the result size of a join is an important query optimization problem as it determines the choice of a good query evaluation strategy. Yet, there are few efficient techni...
Abstract: To enable efficient access to multimedia content, the media data has to be augmented by semantic metadata and functionality. The semantic representation has to be integra...
XML data warehouses form an interesting basis for decision-support applications that exploit complex data. However, native XML database management systems currently bear limited p...