In this paper we unify two supposedly distinct tasks in multimedia retrieval. One task involves answering queries with a few examples. The other involves learning models for seman...
Online Scientific Applications (OSA) require statistical analysis of large multidimensional datasets. Towards this end, we have designed and developed a data storage and retrieval...
An -appro ximate quantile summary of a sequence of N elements is a data structure that can answer quantile queries about the sequence to within a precision of N. We presen t a new...
Abstract. The Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive DWS Nodes (RAIN) technique is a node-level data replication approach that introduces failover capabilities to DWS (Data Warehouse Stri...
Jorge Vieira, Marco Vieira, Marco Costa, Henrique ...
In standard text retrieval systems, the documents are gathered and indexed on a single server. In distributed information retrieval (DIR), the documents are held in multiple colle...