Current search engines crawl the Web, download content, and digest this content locally. For multimedia content, this involves considerable volumes of data. Furthermore, this proc...
In this paper we prove the so-called "Meek Conjecture". In particular, we show that if a DAG H is an independence map of another DAG G, then there exists a finite sequen...
In this paper we introduce the distributed spatio-temporal similarity search problem: given a query trajectory Q, we want to find the trajectories that follow a motion similar to ...
Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Song Lin, Dimitrios G...
This paper describes recent work on the use of regional data extracted from segmented images for use as search keys in an image database query system. The motivation for this work...
Matthew E. J. Wood, Neill W. Campbell, Barry T. Th...
In this paper, we present the concept of Passive Distributed Indexing, a general-purpose distributed search service for mobile file sharing applications, which is based on peer-to...