I n this paper, we address the problem of query processing o n distributed semi-structured data. The distributed semistructured data can be modeled as a rooted and edge-labeled gr...
—We propose a new design for the Domain Name System (DNS) that takes advantage of recent advances in disk storage and multicast distribution technology. In essence, our design co...
Annotating photos is such a time-consuming, tedious and error-prone data entry task that it discourages most owners of personal photo libraries. By allowing users to drag labels s...
Although an optimistic approach has been shown to be better suited than locking protocols for real-time database systems (RTDBS), it has the problems of unnecessary restarts and h...
Searching digital biomedical images is a challenging problem. Prevalent retrieval techniques involve human-supplied text annotations to describe image contents. Biomedical images,...