In this paper, we further develop a proposed layered approach for the Semantic Web. Our objective is to build a specific solution to the problem of providing data interoperability...
Many current multimedia database management systems perform content-based retrieval of images by extracting the values of various features from every object stored in their system...
Remotebackup copies of databasesare often maintained to ensureavailability of dataevenin thepresenceof extensive failures, for which local replication mechanismsmay be inadequate....
Hector Garcia-Molina, Christos A. Polyzois, Robert...
In this paper we present a simple database definition language: that of categories and functors. A database schema is a category and a state is a set-valued functor. We show that m...
Knowing the origin of data (i.e., where the data was copied or created from)—its provenance—is vital for assessing the trustworthiness of contemporary scientific databases su...