As the Web has evolved into a data-rich repository, with the standard “page view,” current search engines are becoming increasingly inadequate for a wide range of query tasks....
Efficient full-text keyword search remains a challenging problem in P2P systems. Most of the traditional keyword search systems on DHT overlay networks perform the join operation ...
The spatio-temporal information of a video object is important for content-based video retrieval. In this paper the spatio-temporal information of a video object, such as the velo...
Unlike numerical preferences, preferences on attribute values do not show an inherent total order, but skyline computation has to rely on partial orderings explicitly stated by th...
Many applicationsstore data items for a pre-determined, finite length of time. Examples include slidingwindows over on-line data streams, where old data are dropped as the window...