Digital library research is mostly focused on the generation of large collections of multimedia resources and state-ofthe-art tools for their indexing and retrieval. However, digi...
In this paper we present the Threshold Join Algorithm (TJA), which is an efficient TOP-k query processing algorithm for distributed sensor networks. The objective of a top-k query...
For content-based image retrieval techniques, query image is used to pick up and rank some relevant images from a database using some certain similarity metric. If semantic feature...
The paper reviews the TREC Programme up to TREC-6 (1997), considering the test results, the substantive findings for IR that follow, and the lessons TREC offers for IR evaluation....
The pervasiveness of location-acquisition technologies (GPS, GSM networks, etc.) enable people to conveniently log the location histories they visited with spatio-temporal data. T...