With the recent ?ourishing research activities on Web search and mining, social networkanalysis, informationnetworkanalysis, informationretrieval, linkana- sis, andstructuraldatamining, researchonlinkmininghasbeenrapidlygrowing, forminganew?eldofdatamining. Traditionaldataminingfocuseson"?at"or"isolated"datainwhicheachdata objectisrepresentedasanindependentattributevector. However, manyreal-world data sets are inter-connected, much richer in structure, involving objects of h- erogeneoustypesandcomplexlinks. Hence, thestudyoflinkminingwillhavea...

Searching Multimedia Databases by Content bridges the gap between the database and signal processing communities by providing the necessary background information for the reader and presenting it along with the intuition and mechanics of the best existing tools in each area.
The first half of Searching Multimedia Databases by Content reviews the most successful database access methods, in increasing complexity, reaching up to spatial access methods and text retrieval. In all cases, the emphasis is on practical approaches that have been incorporated in commercial...