There is an increasing need for an XML query engine that not only searches for exact matches to a query but also returns “query-like” structures. We have designed and develope...
—There is increasing interest in analyzing networks of all types including social, biological, sensor, computer, and transportation networks. Broadly speaking, we may be interest...
In this paper, two block-based texture methods are proposed for content-based image retrieval (CBIR). The approaches use the Local Binary Pattern (LBP) texture feature as the sourc...
This paper is a summary of the author’s thesis that presents a model and an environment for recovering the high level design of legacy software systems based on user defined ar...
We present the architecture and a performance assessment of an extensible query optimizer written in Venus. Venus is a general-purpose active-database rule language embedded in C+...