An important research issue in multimedia databases is the retrieval of similar objects. For most applications in multimedia databases, an exact search is not meaningful. Thus, mu...
Relevance feedback (RF) has been extensively studied in the content-based image retrieval community. However, no commercial Web image search engines support RF because of scalabil...
Although approximate query processing is a prominent way to cope with the requirements of data analysis applications, current database systems do not provide integrated and compre...
Sequence pattern mining is an important research problem because it is the basis of many other applications. Yet how to efficiently implement the mining is difficult due to the ...
Databases may not satisfy integrity constraints (ICs) for several reasons. Nevertheless, in most of the cases an important part of the data is still consistent wrt certain desired...