Most similarity search techniques map the data objects into some high-dimensional feature space. The similarity search then corresponds to a nearest-neighbor search in the feature...
The need to understand and manage provenance arises in almost every scientific application. In many cases, information about provenance constitutes the proof of correctness of re...
Although many efficient concurrency control protocols have been proposed for real-time database systems, they are mainly designed for the systems with a single type of real-time t...
: Managing image data in a database system using metadata has been practiced since the last two decades. However, describing an image fully and adequately with metadata is practica...
Data intensive applications today usually run in either a clientserver or a middleware environment. In either case, they must efficiently handle both database queries, which proc...