User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
Abstract— We propose a novel hierarchical structured prediction approach for ranking images of faces based on attributes. We view ranking as a bipartite graph matching problem; l...
Abstract. Unlike traditional database management systems, in multimedia databases that support content-based retrieval over multimedia objects, it is difficult for users to express...
Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Orteg...
This paper describes query processing in the DBO database system. Like other database systems designed for ad-hoc, analytic processing, DBO is able to compute the exact answer to ...
Christopher M. Jermaine, Subramanian Arumugam, Abh...
Abstract. Recent research has suggested that there is no general similarity measure, which can be applied on arbitrary databases without any parameterization. Hence, the optimal co...