As the volume of multimedia data available on internet is tremendously increasing, the content-based similarity search becomes a popular approach to multimedia retrieval. The most...
Effective keyword search on image databases is a major open problem, due to the inherent imprecision of keywords (tags) used to describe images' content. In this paper we pre...
Search queries on biomedical databases like PubMed often return a large number of results, only a small subset of which is relevant to the user. Ranking and categorization, which c...
based on an abstract concept of quiescence. In the following we sketch this and a related model, describe the design of our experiments, and present the results of our simulation s...
The issue of ®nding similar 3-D surface segments arises in many recent applications of spatial database systems, such as molecular biology, medical imaging, CAD, and geographic i...