This paper introduces a new approach of approximating the selectivity of multimedia range queries. Estimating the selectivity of a range query is a pre-requisite to optimize a mul...
In this paper, we study unsatisfiable queries posed to a mediator in an information integration system and expressed in the logical formalism of the information integration system...
Current image retrieval systems do not provide users with adequate interfaces able to reduce the semantic gap existing between the high-level semantics of images (as perceived by t...
Execution plans produced by traditional query optimizers for data integration queries may yield poor performance for several reasons. The cost estimates may be inaccurate, the mem...
Abstract. We present the Consistency Extractor System (ConsEx) that uses answer set programming to compute consistent answers to first-order queries posed to relational databases ...