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VLDB
2000
ACM
121views Database» more  VLDB 2000»
13 years 9 months ago
Optimizing Multi-Feature Queries for Image Databases
In digital libraries image retrieval queries can be based on the similarity of objects, using several feature attributes like shape, texture, color or text. Such multi-feature que...
Ulrich Güntzer, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Werner Kie&s...
MM
1997
ACM
133views Multimedia» more  MM 1997»
13 years 10 months ago
Supporting Similarity Queries in MARS
To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimediaobjects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) in o...
Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Sha...
ESA
2010
Springer
161views Algorithms» more  ESA 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Top-k Ranked Document Search in General Text Databases
Text search engines return a set of k documents ranked by similarity to a query. Typically, documents and queries are drawn from natural language text, which can readily be partiti...
J. Shane Culpepper, Gonzalo Navarro, Simon J. Pugl...
PODS
2000
ACM
179views Database» more  PODS 2000»
13 years 10 months ago
Selectivity Estimation for Boolean Queries
In a variety of applications ranging from optimizing queries on alphanumeric attributes to providing approximate counts of documents containing several query terms, there is an in...
Zhiyuan Chen, Flip Korn, Nick Koudas, S. Muthukris...
EDBT
2009
ACM
208views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
14 years 25 days ago
Flexible and efficient querying and ranking on hyperlinked data sources
There has been an explosion of hyperlinked data in many domains, e.g., the biological Web. Expressive query languages and effective ranking techniques are required to convert this...
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Louiqa...