Large-scale distributed data management with P2P systems requires the existence of similarity operators for queries as we cannot assume that all users will agree on exactly the sa...
Web object is defined to represent any meaningful object embedded in web pages (e.g. images, music) or pointed to by hyperlinks (e.g. downloadable files). Users usually search for...
Programmers have long used assertions to characterize properties of code. An assertion violation signals a corruption in the program state. At such a state, it is standard to term...
Bassem Elkarablieh, Ivan Garcia, Yuk Lai Suen, Sar...
Relevance feedback (RF) has been extensively studied in the content-based image retrieval community. However, no commercial Web image search engines support RF because of scalabil...
There is an increasing need for an XML query engine that not only searches for exact matches to a query but also returns “query-like” structures. We have designed and develope...