A novel indexing and access method, called Affinity Hybrid Tree (AH-Tree), is proposed to organize large image data sets efficiently and to support popular image access mechanisms...
Today’s model of networking primarily concentrates intelligence at the end hosts with the network itself offering a simple“best-effort”,“data agnostic” communication med...
This paper gives an overview of the INEX 2009 Ad Hoc Track. The main goals of the Ad Hoc Track were three-fold. The first goal was to investigate the impact of the collection scal...
Abstract. The Web now offers an exceptional infrastructure for the development of distributed collaborative services and applications. However, most of the existing applications on...
Describing relational data sources (i.e. databases) by means of ontologies constitutes the foundation of most of the semantic based approaches to data access and integration. In sp...