There are three set operators defined in XQuery, namely union, intersect and except. They take node sequences as operands, in which each node is identified by its node-ID and tr...
Voluminous medical images are generated daily. They are critical assets for medical diagnosis, research, and teaching. To facilitate automatic indexing and retrieval of large medic...
This paper investigates the problem of retrieving popular music by singing. In contrast to the retrieval of MIDI music, which is easy to acquire the main melody by the selection of...
Current proposals for XML change detection use structural constraints to detect the changes and they ignore semantic constraints. Consequently, they may produce semantically incorr...
Location-based services like reminders, electronic graffiti, and tourist guides normally require a custom, location-sensitive database that must be custom-tailored for the applicat...