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1995

Vittal, Chiradeep

Technical report TR95-14. Multimedia applications need support from an underlying multimedia storage system to store and retrieve multimedia objects. The presence of spatio-temporal and composition relationships between the objects, their large volume and their inherent distribution pose...

2004

Sander, Joerg, Moise, Gabriela, Rafiei, Davood

Technical report TR04-24. This thesis studies the problem of effectively finding related pages on the Web, where given the URL of a page, one wants to find other pages that are on the same topic. This is a both simple and natural way of searching for resources without being forced to formulate a...

1993

Irani, Boman B.

Technical report TR93-10. The object-oriented paradigm of computing has started to have a significant influence on many areas of information and data processing, including database systems. This thesis focuses on the various issues and aspects governing the implementation design and development...

1998

Li, John

Technical report TR98-05. Amidst the dramatic developments of computer technology in the last decades, we have seen a growing interest in supporting multimedia data. Compared with traditional data, the most noticeable features of multimedia data are their spatiality (the spatial layout of...

1996

Li, John, Ozsu, M. Tamer, Szafron, Duane

Technical report TR96-12. Modeling moving objects has become a topic of increasing interest in the area of video databases. Two key aspects of such modeling are object spatial and temporal relationships. In this paper we introduce an innovative way to represent the trajectory of a single...

1996

Ozsu, M. Tamer, Li, John, Szafron, Duane

Technical report TR96-06. Video modeling has become a topic of increasing interest in the area of multimedia research. One of the key aspects in the video medium is spatial relationships. In this paper we propose a spatial representation, based on the temporal interval algebra, for specifying...

1997

Ozsu, M. Tamer, Li, John, Szafron, Duane

Technical report TR97-01. Declarative query languages are an important feature of database management systems and have played an important role in their success. As database management technology enters the multimedia information system domain, the availability of query languages for multimedia...

2009

Alencar, Romulo, Nascimento, Mario, Brayner, Angelo

Technical report TR09-05. It is a well known fact that minimizing energy consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is crucial for its usability; and minimizing the flow of data is one way to achieve that. Most WSN models assume the existence of a base station where query results could in...

1996

Ozsu, M. Tamer, Goralwalla, Iqbal, Li, John, Szafron, Duane

Technical report TR96-02. Video modeling has become a topic of increasing interest in the area of multimedia research. One of the key aspects in the video medium is the temporal relationship between video frames. In this report1 we propose a tree based model for specifying spatial and temporal...