Search engines provide a small window to the vast repository of data they index and against which they search. They try their best to return the documents that are of relevance to...
This paper discusses our participation in INEX using the TIJAH XML-IR system. We have enriched the TIJAH system, which follows a standard layered database architecture, with severa...
Data Grids provide transparent access to heterogeneous and autonomous data resources. The main contribution of this paper is the presentation of a data sharing system that (i) is ...
We study the problem of computing query results with confidence values in ULDBs: relational databases with uncertainty and lineage. ULDBs, which subsume probabilistic databases, o...
Digital videos are increasingly adopted in various multimedia applications where they are usually broadcasted or transmitted as video streams. Continuously monitoring copies on the...