The efficient management of complex objects has become an enabling technology for modern multimedia information systems as well as for many novel database applications. Unfortunat...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
As a computational model of natural language communication, Database Semantics1 (DBS) includes a hearer mode and a speaker mode. For the content to be mapped into language expressi...
The advancement of GIS data models to allow the eOEective utilization of very large heterogeneous geographic databases requires a new approach that incorporates models of human cog...
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...
Economical globalization and outsourcing have inspired the surge of research in distributed computer-aided design. This paper presents a framework for Internet-based symbolic dist...