Semantic query optimization (SQO) has been proved to be quite useful in various applications (e.g., data integration, graphical query generators, caching, etc.) and has been extens...
Query rewriting is a fundamental task in query optimization and data integration. With the advent of the web, there has been renewed interest in data integration, where data is dis...
Xia Yang, Mong-Li Lee, Tok Wang Ling, Gillian Dobb...
Abstract. Software applications are inevitably concerned with data integrity, whether the data is stored in a database, files, or program memory. An integrity guard is code execut...
This paper presents a system designed for the management of multimedia databases that embarks upon the problem of efficient media processing and representation for automatic semant...
Janko Calic, Neill W. Campbell, Majid Mirmehdi, Ba...
Abstract. We present a method for automatic segmentation of grey-scale images, based on a recently introduced deformable model, the charged-particle model (CPM). The model is inspi...
Andrei Jalba, Michael H. F. Wilkinson, Jos B. T. M...