For transferring data between heterogeneous databases, XML is becoming a method of choice. While deployment is generally successfully, there are barriers to overcome. A recent exa...
Abstract. Multimedia presentations and their applications are becoming more and more popular in most spheres of industry and everyday life. A database approach could help in queryi...
Zhiyong Huang, Binjia Jiao, B. Prabhakaran, Conrad...
Due to the enormous increase in the stored digital contents, search and retrieval functionalities are necessary in multimedia systems. Though processor speed for standard PCs (Per...
Information extraction is concerned with the location of specific items in (unstructured) textual documents, e.g., being applied for the acquisition of structured data. Then, the ...
Abstract. Ontologies are pervading many areas of knowledge representation and management. To date, most research efforts have been spent on the development of sufficiently express...