Abstract. Database systems are islands of structure in a sea of unstructured data sources. Several real-world applications now need to create bridges for smooth integration of semi...
Replication is a key mechanism to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance in databases. Its importance has recently been further increased because of the role it plays in achievin...
Without textual descriptions or label information of images, searching semantic concepts in image databases is still a very challenging task. While automatic annotation techniques...
In this paper we present a new database of online handwritten documents with different contents such as text, drawings, diagrams, formulas, tables, lists, and markings. It was de...
In this paper we share our experience and describe the methodologies that we have used in designing and recording large speech databases for applications requiring speech synthesi...