In the area of image retrieval, post-retrieval processing is often used to refine the retrieval results to better satisfy users’ requirements. Previous methods mainly focus on p...
Peer-to-peer, or simply P2P, systems have recently emerged as a popular paradigm for building distributed applications. One key aspect of the P2P system design is the mechanism us...
Background: The post-genomic era is characterised by a torrent of biological information flooding the public databases. As a direct consequence, similarity searches starting with ...
Anne Friedrich, Raymond Ripp, Nicolas Garnier, Emm...
Much of the success of the Internet services model can be attributed to the popularity of a class of workloads that we call Online Data-Intensive (OLDI) services. These workloads ...
David Meisner, Christopher M. Sadler, Luiz Andr&ea...
Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...