— Existing stream processing systems are optimized for a specific metric, which may limit their applicability to diverse applications and environments. This paper presents XFlow...
Integration of heterogeneous data types is a challenging problem, especially in biology, where the number of databases and data types increase rapidly. Amongst the problems that o...
We present a new system, called Retimm, for searching databases made of documents containing images and text. Images are indexed by colour and texture distributions.. Colour and t...
In large-scale distributed information systems, where participants are autonomous and have special interests for some queries, query allocation is a challenge. Much work in this c...
In this article, we present our efforts1 on realizing transformation independence in open, extensible, and highly distributed multimedia information The main focus is on the abstra...