We review the recent progress in the design of efficient algorithms for various problems in
geometric optimization. We present several techniques used to attack these problems, such …

The logical approach to information retrieval has recently been the object of active research.
It is our contention that researchers have put a lot of effort in trying to address some difficult …

Research on multimedia information retrieval (MIR) has recently witnessed a booming
interest. A prominent feature of this research trend is its simultaneous but independent …

Finding useful information from large multimodal document collections such as the WWW
without encountering numerous false positives poses a challenge to multimedia information …

(57) ABSTRACT A method for test procedures using pictures for a vehicle 4.418. 338 A
11/1983 Burt........................... 340,578 diagnostic system that includes providing text items …

In the summer of 1992 I was nishing my masters studies with an internship post at a
publishing house. It was during that period that I became attracted to the vast number of …

The aggregated structure of documents plays a key role in full-text, multimedia, and network
Information Retrieval (IR). Considering aggregation provides new querying facilities and …

Finding useful information from large multimodal document collections such as the WWW
without encountering numerous false positives poses a challenge to multimodal information …

Using database technology for the administration of digital libraries offers many advantages
in a multi-user and distributed environment. However, conventional DBMS are not …

This paper presents an extendedmodel for image representation and retrieval (EMIR2).
Thismodel combines different interpretations of an image to build a complete description of …