Content-based image retrieval requires a natural image (e.g, a photo) as query, but the absence of such a query image is usually the reason for a search. An easy way to express the...
Top-k queries are widely applied for retrieving a ranked set of the k most interesting objects based on the individual user preferences. As an example, in online marketplaces, cus...
As XML has emerged as a data representation format and as great quantities of data have been stored in the XML format, XML document design has become an important and evident issu...
Conventional approaches to image retrieval are based on the assumption that relevant images are physically near the query image in some feature space. This is the basis of the clu...
We study the problem of continuous monitoring of top-k queries over multiple non-synchronized streams. Assuming a sliding window model, this general problem has been a well addres...