: Database-internal statistics are very important for cost-based query optimizers. Only if an optimizer has accurate statistical information about data, it provides excellent execu...
Logic meta-programming in Prolog is a powerful way to express program analysis and transformation. However, its use can be difficult and error-prone because it requires programmer...
Flexible and effective indexing of video data so as to render it useful in automated inference and datadriven knowledge acquisition is a key problem in knowledge engineering. In t...
Jie Bao, Yu Cao, Wallapak Tavanapong, Vasant Honav...
In this paper, we propose a methodological approach for the model driven development of secure XML databases (DB). This proposal is within the framework of MIDAS, a model driven m...
We study a novel problem of mining significant recurrent rules from a sequence database. Recurrent rules have the form "whenever a series of precedent events occurs, eventuall...