Data management is growing in complexity as largescale applications take advantage of the loosely coupled resources brought together by grid middleware and by abundant storage cap...
Information ubiquity has created a large crowd of users (most notably scientists), who could employ DBMS technology to process and share their data more effectively. Still, this ...
In this report we describe the approach of the University of Twente to the 2006 GeoCLEF task. It is based on retrieval by content and the subsequent filtering by geographical rele...
A growing mount of available text data are being stored in relational databases, giving rise to an increasing need for the RDBMSs to support effective text retrieval. In this pape...
In the paper, an e cient image database system is developed. The most important features of the proposed system include compressed domain indexing, searching by using scalable fea...