Given that commercial search engines cover billions of web pages, efficiently managing the corresponding volumes of disk-resident data needed to answer user queries quickly is a f...
In recent years, several methods have been proposed for implementing interactive similarity queries on multimedia databases. Common to all these methods is the idea to exploit use...
Users of a digital book library system typically interact with the system to search for books by querying on the metadata describing the books or to search for information in the p...
A referral system is a multiagent system whose member agents are capable of giving and following referrals. The specific cases of interest arise where each agent has a user. The ...
Automatic video search based on semantic concept detectors has recently received significant attention. Since the number of available detectors is much smaller than the size of h...