A new system, RAIDER (Retrieval and Annotation of Image Databases), has been developed for the management of image databases. RAIDER was designed to combat the inadequacies and in...
— Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) are fostering the appearance of a plethora of new services and applications. On the one hand, ICT will improve the efficiency...
Table partitioning splits a table into smaller parts that can be accessed, stored, and maintained independent of one another. From their traditional use in improving query perform...
With the advances in wireless communications and technologies of mobile devices, location-based applications or services will become an essential part of future applications. We h...
— Privacy, lineage, uncertainty, and security are important to many information integration efforts, and these “PLUS” properties interact in a number of complex ways. This pa...
Barbara T. Blaustein, Len Seligman, Michael Morse,...