Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...
This paper presents Process Algebra for Predictible Control Systems (PAPCS) as a model for specifying and analysis of concurrent, time and resource dependent, distributed control s...
Data Quality has many dimensions one of which is accuracy. Accuracy is usually compromised by errors accidentally or intensionally introduced in a database system. These errors re...
Vassilios S. Verykios, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Elias ...
This work proposes a model for video retrieval based upon the inference network model. The document network is constructed using video metadata encoded using MPEG-7 and captures i...
—Design and evaluation of groupware systems raise questions which do not have to be addressed in the context of single user systems. The designer has to take into account not onl...