We consider non-Horn Deductive Data Bases (DDB) represented in a First Order language without function symbols. In this context the DDB is an incomplete description of the world. ...
In the mobile wireless computing environment of the future, a large number of users, equipped with low-powered palmtop machines, will query databases over wireless communication ch...
In applications such as vision and molecular biology, a common problem is to find the similar objects to a given target (according to some distance measure) in a large database. T...
With the advent and proliferation of digital cameras and computers, the number of digital photos created and stored by consumers has grown extremely large. This created increasing...
Yi Wu, Igor Kozintsev, Jean-Yves Bouguet, Carole D...
Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...