The Visual Thesaurus is a new query approach when no starting image is available. It is a concise representation of all similar regions in a panel of visual patches; the user arra...
Abstract. Several alternatives to manage large XML document collections exist, ranging from file systems over relational or other database systems to specifically tailored XML base...
Thorsten Fiebig, Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kanne...
Today, more and more enterprises process XML data, many of them already in XML database systems. Once systems start to grow in size, scalability becomes an issue. One of the core o...
Searching is inherently an interactive process usually requiring numerous iterations of querying and assessing in order to find the desired amount of relevant information. Essent...
Heterogeneous entities or objects are very common and are usually interrelated with each other in many scenarios. For example, typical Web search activities involve multiple types...