To truly meet the requirements of multimedia database (MMDB) management, an integrated framework for modeling, managing and retrieving various kinds of media data in a uniform way...
: Skyline Queries have recently received a lot of attention due to their intuitive query capabilities. Following the concept of Pareto optimality all `best' database objects a...
A plethora of data sources contain data entities that could be ordered according to a variety of attributes associated with the entities. Such orderings result effectively in a ra...
We investigate the problem of refining SQL queries to satisfy cardinality constraints on the query result. This has applications to the many/few answers problems often faced by da...
Recently, there has been an increased interest in the query reformulation using relevance feedback with evolutionary techniques such as genetic algorithm for multimedia informatio...