Many data base applications require the storage and manipulation of different versions of data objects. To satisfy the diverse needs of these applications, current database system...
Advanced applications in fields like electronic publishing and telecooperation face the problem of handling multimedia information. Conventional database systems do not offer adeq...
Semantic relationships, those class-to-class connections that carry inherent support for constraints and various other functionalities, play an important role when building inform...
This paper presents a system for segmentation of images into regions and annotation of these regions for semantic identification of the objects present in the image. The unified me...
Semantic models have shown the utility of arbitrary user-de ned relationships for de ning the semantics of database information, while objectoriented models have developed a stron...