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The Case of China: General Framework and a Specific Situation

This section is dedicated to the situation of the information systems in China. After an overview on the progress in the development of computer-based retrieval systems over the past ten years and a descriptio...

Gao Chongqian, Zhang Fenglou, Baowei Fang in Bridging the Information Gap (1990)

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Determining the Needs

This section addresses the first phase of the development of the information systems for SMEs, namely, the analysis of the information needs and user cosiderations.

Zhou Zhiyou, Du Baorong, Zhang Baoming, Keith W. Reynard… in Bridging the Information Gap (1990)

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DL-Raid: An environment for supporting Digital Library services

Bharat Bhargava, Melliyal Annamalai, Shalab Goel… in Digital Libraries Current Issues (1995)

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A video database system for Digital Libraries

The digital libraries of the future must be able to accommodate multimedia source material as readily as current libraries accommodate text. Our effort to achieve this goal has concentrated on the development ...

HongJiang Zhang, Stephen W. Smoliar, Jian Hua Wu… in Digital Libraries Current Issues (1995)

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Corpus Linguistics for establishing the natural language content of Digital Library documents

The methods of corpus linguistics can reveal a great deal of information about word use and language structure by careful processing of very large corpora. This information can be used for adding organizationa...

Robert P. Futrelle, **aolan Zhang, Yumiko Sekiya in Digital Libraries Current Issues (1995)

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Genetic Algorithm for Materialized View Selection in Data Warehouse Environments

DataWarehouse applications use a large number of materialized views to assist a Data Warehouse to perform well. But how to select views to be materialized is challenging. Several heuristic algorithms have been...

Chuan Zhang, Jian Yang in DataWarehousing and Knowledge Discovery (1999)

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Discovering Tendency Association between Objects with Relaxed Periodicity and Its Application in Seismology

Relaxed periodicity is proposed to describe loose-‘cyclic behavior of objects while allowing uneven stretch or shrink on time axis, limited noises, and inflation/deflation of attribute values. The techniques t...

Changjie Tang, Rynson W. H. Lau, Huabei Yin, Qing Li, Lu Yang… in Internet Applications (1999)

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A Distributed Search System Based on Markov Decision Processes

This paper discusses a flat distributed search system in which selecting the relevant servers to a given query becomes difficult due to the lack of global knowledge at each server. To ensure the quality of the...

Yipeng Shen, Dik Lun Lee, Lian Wen Zhang in Internet Applications (1999)

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Mechanisms for Inter-domain QoS Routing in Differentiated Service Networks

In order to provide various services with different quality requirements, the current Internet is expected to turn into a QoS based Internet under the Differentiated Service (DiffServ) architecture. A variety ...

Peng Zhang, Raimo Kantola in Quality of Future Internet Services (2000)

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Scalable Maintenance of Multiple Interrelated Data Warehousing Systems

The maintenance of data warehouses(DWs) is becoming an increasingly important topic due to the growing use, derivation and integration of digital information. Most previous work has dealt with one centralized ...

Lingli Ding, **n Zhang, Elke A. Rundensteiner in Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (2000)

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DyDa: Dynamic Data Warehouse Maintenance in a Fully Concurrent Environment

Data warehouses (DW) are an emerging technology to support high-level decision making by gathering information from several distributed information sources (ISs) into one materialized repository. In dynamic en...

**n Zhang, Elke A. Rundensteiner in Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (2000)

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Semantic Conflicts and Solutions in Fuzzy Multidatabase Systems

Database schema integration is an important discipline for constructing heterogeneous multidatabase systems. Fuzzy information have also been introduced into relational databases and have been extensively stud...

M. Ma Zongmin, J. Zhang Wenjun, Weiyin Y. Ma in Databases in Networked Information Systems (2000)

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Network-Adaptive Cache Management Schemes for Mixed Media

For efficently caching mixed-media, this paper discusses several network-adaptive cache management schemes. Considering the characteristics of different types of media, we first proposed a multi-level page-siz...

Fang Yu, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu, Ya-Qin Zhang in Advances in Multimedia Information Process… (2001)

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A New Shot Boundary Detection Algorithm

Shot is often used as basic unit for both analyzing and indexing video. In this paper, we present an algorithm for automatic shot detection. In our algorithm, we use a ‘flash model’ and a ‘cut model’ to deal w...

Dong Zhang, Wei Qi, Hong Jiang Zhang in Advances in Multimedia Information Process… (2001)

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FBCC: An Image Similarity Algorithm Based on Regions

Region-based image retrieval has been an active research area for the past few years. A good similarity measure that combines information from all regions is very important for region-based retrieval systems. ...

Fang Qian, Lei Zhang, Fuzong Lin, Bo Zhang in Advances in Multimedia Information Process… (2001)

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Using Keyblock Statistics to Model Image Retrieval

Keyblock, which is a new framework we proposed for the content-based image retrieval, is a generalization of the text-based information retrieval technology in the image domain. In this framework, keyblocks, w...

Lei Zhu, Chun Tang… in Advances in Multimedia Information Processing — PCM 2001 (2001)

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Enhancing XML Data Processing in Relational System with Indices

Using relational database to query XML documents is becoming a common and viable practice. To meet the request of retrieving XML data on Web, which are usually semi-structured or unstructured, the current data...

Yuqi Liang, Aoying Zhou, Shihui Zheng… in Advances in Web-Age Information Management (2001)

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Tuning of QoS Aware Load Balancing Algorithm (QoS–LB) for Highly Loaded Server Clusters

This paper introduces a novel algorithm for content based switching. A content based scheduling algorithm (QoS Aware Load Balancing Algorithm, QoS-LB) which can be used at the front-end of the server cluster i...

Kimmo Kaario, Timo Hämäläinen, Jian Zhang in Networking — ICN 2001 (2001)

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Mining Web Logs to Improve Web Caching and Prefetching

Caching and prefetching are well known strategies for improving the performance of Internet systems. The heart of a caching system is its page replacement policy, which selects the pages to be replaced in a pr...

Qiang Yang, Henry Haining Zhang, Ian T. Y. Li… in Web Intelligence: Research and Development (2001)