In spite of the many decades of progress in database research, surprisingly scientists in the life sciences community still struggle with inefficient and awkward tools for queryin...
Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...
“History Teaches Everything, Including the Future”, wrote Alphonse de Lamartine in the nineteen century. Even if history cannot be really considered a predictive science, hist...
With the increasing popularity of the World Wide Web, the number of information sources providing access to various types of data has increased considerably. While simple data ret...
Ubiquitous computing requires a multitude of devices to have access ame services. Abstract specifications of user interfaces are designed to separate the definition of a user inter...