Location-aware mobile users need to access, query, and visualize, geographic information in a wide variety of applications including tourism, navigation, environmental management,...
Suresh K. Lodha, Nikolai M. Faaland, Grant Wong, A...
Abstract. Integration of text and documents into database management systems has been the subject of much research. However, most of the approaches are limited to data retrieval. C...
Stefania Leone, Ela Hunt, Thomas B. Hodel, Michael...
Abstract. The fashion, textile, and clothing industry is a main constituent in Hong Kong. In this industry, handling a large amount of images is an important task in various phases...
XML documents are frequently used in applications such as business transactions and medical records involving sensitive information. Typically, parts of documents should be visibl...
Naizhen Qi, Michiharu Kudo, Jussi Myllymaki, Hamid...
Biological scientists have made large amounts of data available on the Web, which can be accessed by canned or precomputed queries presented via web forms. To satisfy further info...
Diego Calvanese, C. Maria Keet, Werner Nutt, Maria...