Users of image databases often prefer to retrieve relevant images by categories. Unfortunately, images are usually indexed by low-level features like color, texture and shape, whi...
The nature of semistructured data in web collections is evolving. Increasingly, XML web documents (or documents exchanged via web services) are valid with regard to a schema, yet ...
Mariano P. Consens, Flavio Rizzolo, Alejandro A. V...
Scientific and intelligence applications have special data handling needs. In these settings, data does not fit the standard model of short coded records that had dominated the dat...
The paper proposes an extension of CFDs [1], referred to as extended Conditional Functional Dependencies (eCFDs). In contrast to CFDs, eCFDs specify patterns of semantically relate...
Todays abundance of storage coupled with digital technologies in virtually any scientific or commercial application such as medical and biological imaging or music archives deal w...