Retrieving images by content and forming visual queries are important functionality of an image database system. Using textual descriptions to specify queries on image content is ...
David Wai-Lok Cheung, Chi-Hung Lee, Vincent T. Y. ...
— XML is commonly supported by SQL database systems. However, existing mappings of XML to tables can only deliver satisfactory query performance for limited use cases. In this pa...
Liang Jeff Chen, Philip A. Bernstein, Peter Carlin...
—There are increasing capabilities and demands for the remote monitoring of homes and their occupants. There are a variety of options for the architecture of such monitoring syst...
Whenever message-oriented middleware is used within applications which run on heterogeneous software systems of multiple partners, and middleware protocols have to be replaced or ...
Abstract: The application of Web 2.0 tools and methodologies in the domain of eGovernment is not yet a fully exploited area due to the immaturity of the software support, and the l...