This paper uses a knowledge-based approach to querying heterogeneous spatial databases based on an ontology and conceptual and attribute similarities. The ontology, which may be in...
Demand for music databases is increasing for the studies of musicology and music informatics. Our goal is to construct databases that contain deviations of tempo, and dynamics, st...
We believe continued growth in the volume of personal content, together with a shift to a multi-device personal computing environment, will inevitably lead to the development of P...
It is often useful to get high-level views of datasets in order to identify areas of interest worthy of further exploration. In relational databases, the high-level view can be de...
Database application programs are often designed to be executed concurrently by many clients. By grouping related database queries into transactions, DBMS systems can guarantee th...