Most Internet search engines are keyword-based. They are not efficient for the queries where geographical location is important, such as finding hotels within an area or close to ...
Mobile applications will increasingly depend upon multimedia information originating in the web and attempt to access this data over wireless networks that are more expensive and ...
Modern object-relational database systems are capable of managing multimedia data, e.g. image, video and audio. In this paper we study how such universal database systems can be u...
Large-scale Parallel Web Search Engines (WSEs) needs to adopt a strategy for partitioning the inverted index among a set of parallel server nodes. In this paper we are interested ...
Current technologies aimed at supporting processes – whether it is a business or learning process – primarily follow a metadata- and data-centric paradigm. Whereas process met...