Clio, the IBM Research system for expressing declarative schema mappings, has progressed in the past few years from a research prototype into a technology that is behind some of I...
A graphical formalized language is proposed for specifying systems of views over database schemas. The language is based on the notion of arrow (mapping) between data schemas and ...
A comprehensive video retrieval system should be able to accommodate and utilize various (complementary) description data in facilitating effective retrieval. In this paper, we ad...
Shermann S.-M. Chan, Qing Li, Yi Wu, Yueting Zhuan...
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...
Abstract. Formal semantics for XQuery with side-effects have been proposed in [13, 16]. We propose a different semantics which is better suited for database compilation. We substan...