Database modeling is still a job of an artisan. Due to this approach database schemata evolve by growth without any evolution plan. Finally, they cannot be examined, surveyed, con...
In mobile and ambient environments, devices need to become autonomous, managing and resolving problems without interference from a user. The database of a (mobile) device can be s...
Maurice van Keulen, Ander de Keijzer, Wouter Alink
Content based search in audio-visual collections requires media specific analysis for extracting low level features to be efficiently indexed and searched. We present the SAPIR ...
Walter Allasia, Fabrizio Falchi, Francesco Gallo, ...
An increasing number of data sources now become available on the Web, but often their contents are only accessible through query interfaces. For a domain of interest, there often ...
Wensheng Wu, Clement T. Yu, AnHai Doan, Weiyi Meng
Physical data independence is touted as a central feature of modern database systems. Both relational and object-oriented systems, however, force users to frame their queries in t...
Odysseas G. Tsatalos, Marvin H. Solomon, Yannis E....