To truly meet the requirements of multimedia database (MMDB) management, an integrated framework for modeling, managing and retrieving various kinds of media data in a uniform way...
Search engines today present results that are often oblivious to recent shifts in intent. For example, the meaning of the query `independence day' shifts in early July to a U...
We consider the problem of recovering items matching a partially specified pattern in multidimensional trees (quad trees and k-d trees). We assume the classical model where the d...
Nicolas Broutin, Ralph Neininger, Henning Sulzbach
In this paper we present NewsFlash, an adaptive search system that assists a searcher to efficiently search a library of stored TV news reports. The system automatically summarises...
We describe an asymptotically optimal data-structure for dynamic point location for horizontal segments. For n line-segments, queries take O(log n) time, updates take O(log n) amo...