Today, when searching for information on the WWW, one usually performs a query through a term-based search engine. These engines return, as the query'...
A metasearch engine is a system that supports unified access to multiple local search engines. Database selection is one of the main challenges in bui...
The continued growth of very large data environments such as Westlaw and Dialog, in addition to the World Wide Web, increases the importance of effect...
Compression of large collections can lead to improvements in retrieval times by offsetting the CPU decompression costs with the cost of seeking and re...
This paper deals with image and video segmentation using active contours. We propose a general form for the energy functional related to region-based...
