Studies show that roughly one-third of searches that are performed on the web require the user to initiate subsequent searches. Bates [1] theorized that with every search the user...
As one of the most effective query expansion approaches, local feedback is able to automatically discover new query terms and improve retrieval accuracy for different retrieval ...
Image clustering is useful in many retrieval and classification applications. The main goal of image clustering is to partition a given dataset into salient clusters such that the...
The Pathfinder XQuery compiler has been enhanced by a new code generator that can target any SQL:1999-compliant relational database system (RDBMS). This code generator marks an im...
Torsten Grust, Manuel Mayr, Jan Rittinger, Sherif ...
Abstract. A large volume of data with complex structures is currently represented in GML (Geography Markup Language) for storing and exchanging geographic information. As the size ...