Many existing indexes on text work at the document granularity and are not effective in answering the class of queries where the desired answer is only a term or a phrase. In this...
In this article, we describe the design process of Reno, a location-enhanced, mobile coordination tool and person finder. The design process included three field experiments: a ...
Giovanni Iachello, Ian E. Smith, Sunny Consolvo, M...
Temporal aggregate queries retrieve summarized information about records with time-evolving attributes. Existing approaches have at least one of the following shortcomings: (i) th...
In many modern applications such as biometric identification systems, sensor networks, medical imaging, geology, and multimedia databases, the data objects are not described exact...
Abstract: Efficient content-based similarity search in large multimedia databases requires efficient query processing algorithms for many practical applications. Especially in hi...