Searching is inherently an interactive process usually requiring numerous iterations of querying and assessing in order to find the desired amount of relevant information. Essent...
This paper introduces BoostMap, a method that can significantly reduce retrieval time in image and video database systems that employ computationally expensive distance measures, ...
Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, Stan Sclaroff, G...
MultiMap is an algorithm for mapping multidimensional datasets so as to preserve the data's spatial locality on disks. Without revealing disk-specific details to applications...
Minglong Shao, Steven W. Schlosser, Stratos Papado...
A top-k query combines different rankings of the same set of objects and returns the k objects with the highest combined score according to an aggregate function. We bring to ligh...
Nikos Mamoulis, Kit Hung Cheng, Man Lung Yiu, Davi...
For an enterprise to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by electronic commerce it must be able to make decisions about business transactions in near-realtime. In the com...