This paper addresses Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), focusing on developing a hidden semantic concept discovery methodology to address effective semanticsintensive image ret...
Because performance is a crucial issue in database systems, data caching techniques have been studied in database research field, especially in client-server databases and distrib...
Controlled Query Evaluation (CQE) defines a logical framework to protect confidential information in a database. By modeling a user's a priori knowledge appropriately, a CQE ...
This paper presents a novel strategy for temporal coalescing. Temporal coalescing merges the temporal extents of value-equivalent tuples. A temporal extent is usually coalesced of...
Correctly generating a structured query (e.g., an XQuery or a SQL query) requires the user to have a full understanding of the database schema, which can be a daunting task. Alter...