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CIVR
2008
Springer
138views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2008»
15 years 5 months ago
Visual islands: intuitive browsing of visual search results
The amount of available digital multimedia has seen exponential growth in recent years. While advances have been made in the indexing and searching of images and videos, less focu...
Eric Zavesky, Shih-Fu Chang, Cheng-Chih Yang
CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Maximal termsets as a query structuring mechanism
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
Bruno Pôssas, Nivio Ziviani, Berthier A. Rib...
MIDDLEWARE
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
An Optimal Overlay Topology for Routing Peer-to-Peer Searches
Unstructured peer-to-peer networks are frequently used as the overlay in various middleware toolkits for emerging applications, from content discovery to query result caching to di...
Brian F. Cooper
PVLDB
2010
146views more  PVLDB 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
Graph Indexing of Road Networks for Shortest Path Queries with Label Restrictions
The current widespread use of location-based services and GPS technologies has revived interest in very fast and scalable shortest path queries. We introduce a new shortest path q...
Michael Rice, Vassilis J. Tsotras
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
142views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 3 months ago
Cost-based variable-length-gram selection for string collections to support approximate queries efficiently
Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
Xiaochun Yang, Bin Wang, Chen Li