— An approximate string query is to find from a collection of strings those that are similar to a given query string. Answering such queries is important in many applications su...
With the proliferation of multimedia data and evergrowing requests for multimedia applications, new challenges are emerged for efficient and effective managing and accessing large...
Several time series matching techniques have been proposed for content-based music retrieval. These techniques represent a melody by a time series of pitch values and use time war...
Traditionally hypertexts have been limited in size by the manual effort required to create hypertext links. In addition, large hyper–linked collections may overwhelm users with ...
Enabling keyword queries over relational databases (KQDB) benefits a large population of users who have difficulty in understanding the database schema or using SQLs. However, sin...