During the last decade, multimedia databases have become increasingly important in many
application areas such as medicine, CAD, geography, and molecular biology. An important …

Parallel disk systems provide opportunities for exploiting I/O parallelism in two possible
ways, namely via inter-request and intra-request parallelism. In this paper, we discuss the …

Most similarity search techniques map the data objects into some high-dimensional feature
space. The similarity search then corresponds to a nearest-neighbor search in the feature …

There are two major challenges for a high performance remote sensing database. First, it
must provide low latency retrieval of very large volumes of spatio temporal data. This …

In shared-nothing multiprocessor database machines, the relational operators that form a
query are executed on the processors where the relations they reference are stored. In …

A method for achieving declustering for Cartesian product files on M units is proposed. The
focus is on range queries, as opposed to partial match queries that older declustering …

We present a technique to decluster a spatial access method on a shared-nothing multi-
computer architecture [DGS+ 90]. We propose a software architecture with the R-tree as the …

In this paper we present data distribution methods for parallel processing environment. The
primary objective is to process partial match retrieval type queries for parallel devices. The …

I/O parallelism appears to be a promising approach to achieving high performance in
parallel database systems. In such systems, it is essential to decluster database les into …

One of the most critical limitations of Kinect TM-based interfaces is the need for persistence
in order to interact with virtual objects. Indeed, a user must keep her arm still for a not-so …