Current peer-to-peer (p2p) full-text keyword search techniques fall into the following categories: document-based partitioning, keyword-based partitioning, hybrid indexing, and se...
Searching for images by using low-level visual features, such as color and texture, is known to be a powerful, yet imprecise, retrieval paradigm. The same is true if search relies...
XPathLog is a logic-based language for manipulating and integrating XML data. It extends the XPath query language with Prolog-style variables. Due to the close relationship with X...
Histogram techniques have been used in many commercial database management systems to estimate a query result size. Recently, it has been shown that they are very effective to su...
This paper proposes an English learning support tool which provides users with divergent information to find the right words and expressions. In contrast to a number of software to...