This paper addresses the content overload problem applied to photo retrieval activities in the home environment. The starting point is an analysis of the main activities that users...
Dario Teixeira, Wim F. J. Verhaegh, Miguel Ferreir...
I n this paper, we address the problem of query processing o n distributed semi-structured data. The distributed semistructured data can be modeled as a rooted and edge-labeled gr...
Search engines are commercial entities that require revenue to survive. The most prevalent revenue stream for search engines is sponsored search, where content providers have sear...
An algorithm is presented to answer window queries in a quadtree-based spatial database environment by retrieving the covering blocks in the underlying spatial database. It works ...
In this paper we propose the use of fractals and especially the Hilbert curve, in order to design good distance-preserving mappings. Such mappings improve the performance of secon...