Traditional approaches for efficiently processing historical queries, where a history is a multidimensional timeseries, employ a two step filter-and-refine scheme. In the filter s...
Images are amongst the most widely proliferated form of digital information due to affordable imaging technologies and the Web. In such an environment, the use of digital watermar...
Decision-support applications generate queries with complex predicates. We show how the factorization of complex query expressions exposes significant opportunities for exploiting...
Due to the tremendous increase rate and the high change frequency of Web documents, maintaining an up-to-date index for searching purposes (search engines) is becoming a challenge....
Odysseas Papapetrou, Stavros Papastavrou, George S...
Region-based image retrieval systems aim to improve the effectiveness of content-based search by decomposing each image into a set of “homogeneous” regions. Thus, similarity b...