As relational database management systems are applied to non-traditional domains such as scientific data management, there is an increasing need to support queries with semantics ...
Currently, only few XML data management systems support concurrent access to an XML document, and if they do, they typically apply variations of hierarchical locking to handle XML...
A new system, RAIDER (Retrieval and Annotation of Image Databases), has been developed for the management of image databases. RAIDER was designed to combat the inadequacies and in...
This paper is about non-approximate acceleration of high-dimensional nonparametric operations such as k nearest neighbor classifiers. We attempt to exploit the fact that even if w...
This paper introduces a content-based information retrieval method inspired by the ideas of spreading activation models. In response to a given query, the proposed approach comput...