Extending relational database functionality to include data mining primitives is one step towards the greater goal of more closely integrated database and mining systems. This pape...
A patent always contains some images along with the text. Many text based systems have been developed to search the patent database. In this paper, we describe PATSEEK that is an ...
In this paper a fuzzy approach for image retrieval on the basis of color features is presented. The proposal deals with vagueness in the color description and introduces the use o...
As the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is about to emerge as a new standard for databases, the problem of providing solid logical grounds for XML query languages arises. For the ...
Query answering over OWLs and RDFs on the Semantic Web is, in general, a deductive process. To this end, OWL, a family of web ontology languages based on description logic, has be...