Abstract— It is widely realized that the integration of information retrieval (IR) and database (DB) techniques provides users with a broad range of high quality services. A new ...
In this paper, we present our participation in the ImageCLEF 2005 ad-hoc track. First, we describe a preliminary pool of cross-language experiments with the ImageCLEF 2004 testbed...
XML is a flexible and powerful tool that enables information and security sharing in heterogeneous environments. Scalable technologies are needed to effectively manage the growing...
Rebecca Cathey, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen,...
In this paper we present the Threshold Join Algorithm (TJA), which is an efficient TOP-k query processing algorithm for distributed sensor networks. The objective of a top-k query...
In this paper we present the design and implementation of a distributed index architecture to facilitate metadata discovery on large networks. Many current information discovery s...