Most image retrieval systems only allow a fragment of text or an example image as a query. Most users have more complex information needs that are not easily expressed in either of...
Finding a piece of music based on its content is a key problem in music information retrieval. For example, a user may be interested in finding music based on knowledge of only a s...
Iman S. H. Suyoto, Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd, Falk...
The exponential growth of the web and the extended use of database management systems in widely distributed information systems has brought to the fore the need for seamless interc...
We introduce a new abstract model of database query processing, finite cursor machines, that incorporates certain data streaming aspects. The model describes quite faithfully what...
Martin Grohe, Yuri Gurevich, Dirk Leinders, Nicole...
Semantic query optimization (SQO) has been proved to be quite useful in various applications (e.g., data integration, graphical query generators, caching, etc.) and has been extens...