NetView: Integrating Large-Scale Distributed Visual Databases

Aidong Zhang, Wendy Chang and Gholamhosein Sheikholeslami,     State University of New York at Buffalo

Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood,     Xerox Research Center

NetView supports global content-based query access to various visual databases over the Internet. An integrated metaserver consisting of a metadatabase, metasearch agent, and query manager facilitates such access. NetView significantly reduces the amount of time and effort that users spend in finding information of interest. It also can further refine the metaserver’s performance based on user feedback.

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