Feature-rich data, such as audio-video recordings, digital images, and results of scientific
experiments, nowadays constitute the largest fraction of the massive data sets produced …

Metric space is a universal and versatile model of similarity that can be applied in various
areas of non-text information retrieval. However, a general, efficient and scalable solution for …

The caching of accessed disk pages has been successfully used for decades in database
technology, resulting in effective amortization of I/O operations needed within a stream of …

Contemporary challenges for efficient similarity search include complex similarity functions,
the curse of dimensionality, and large sizes of descriptive features of data objects. This …

Abstract Analysis of contemporary Big Data collections require an effective and efficient
content-based access to data which is usually unstructured. This first implies a necessity to …

Identifying unvisited portions of visited information to visit includes receiving information to
crawl, wherein the infor mation is representative of one of web based information and non …

As one of the most important technologies for implementing large-scale distributed systems,
peer-to-peer (P2P) computing has attracted much attention in both research and industrial …