In this paper we present an initial study on the use of both high and low level MPEG-7 descriptions for video retrieval. A brief survey of current XML indexing techniques shows tha...
The data structures suitable for indexing of large spatial objects in databases are considered. Some generalizations of existing tree methods concerned approximation of spatial ob...
Database query languages can be intimidating to the nonexpert, leading to the immense recent popularity for keyword based search in spite of its significant limitations. The holy ...
Twig pattern matching (TPM) is the core operation of XML query processing. Existing approaches rely on either efficient data structures or novel labeling/indexing schemes to reduce...
In a Web-Based federated simulation system, a group of simulation models residing on different machines attached to the Internet, called federates, collaborate with each other to ...