In this paper, a message-oriented architecture for large database summarization is presented. The summarization system takes a database table as input and produces a reduced versi...
In the last few years, XML became a de-facto standard for the exchange of structured and semi-structured data. The database research community took this development into account b...
An important implementation decision in polymorphically typed functional programming languages is whether to represent data in boxed or unboxed form and when to transform them fro...
High-Level music descriptors are key ingredients for music information retrieval systems. Although there is a long tradition in extracting information from acoustic signals, the f...
With dramatic improvements in cost-performance, the use of clusters of personal computers is fast becoming widespread. For ease of use and management, a Single System Image (SSI) ...