: Multimedia applications nowadays are becoming prevalent. In the past the relational database model was generalized to the multimedia database model. More recently the relational ...
Shi-Kuo Chang, Lei Zhao, Shenoda Guirguis, Rohit K...
Modeling and analysis is indispensable in engineering. To be safe and effective, a modeling method requires a language with a validated semantics; feature-rich, easy-to-use, depen...
Distributed database design is a complex process that involves a set of distinct aspects for the accomplishment of an adequate data distribution (Buretta 1997). Many of these aspec...
Contrary to popular belief, relation schemes in good classical normal forms are not necessarily devoid of redundancies. This arises from the fact that classical data dependencies ...
Abstract. We show how to specify and use the metadata for a virtual and relational data integration system under the local-as-view (LAV) approach. We use XML and RuleML for represe...