User modeling for information retrieval has mostly been studied to improve the effectiveness of information access in centralized repositories. In this paper we explore user model...
Finding the best matching database target to a melodic query has been of great interest in the music IR world. The string alignment paradigm works well for this task when comparin...
Nearest Neighbor Search on Multimedia Indexing Structures Multimedia databases get larger and larger in our days, and this trend is expected to continue in the future. There are v...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
Object persistence architectures support transparent access to persistent objects. For efficiency, many of these architectures support queries that can prefetch associated objects ...