— The trend in Grid computing towards more data intensive applications, accessing more and more relational databases and requiring advanced integration of secondhand and publicly...
In the multimedia field, metadata are becoming increasingly important for efficiently cataloguing the abundant flood of information. (Metadata are data on information structure...
WAND is a meta-data management system that provides a file-system tree for users of an internet based P2P network. The tree is robust and retains its structure even when nodes (pe...
We propose an approach to content-based Distributed Information Retrieval based on the periodic and incremental centralisation of full-content indices of widely dispersed and auto...
Fabio Simeoni, Murat Yakici, Steve Neely, Fabio Cr...
Metadata is the information that describes the most important feature of an object. In recent years, metadata plays a more and more important role in data intensive applications. I...