Order is essential for XML query processing. Efficient XML processing with order consideration over relational storage is non-trivial, especially for complex nested XQuery expressi...
Abstract. Research on processing XML documents gained much activity in recent times. XML query languages are mostly based on XPath expressions, which are used to select parts of XM...
This paper presents a framework for building rule-based image retrieval (RBIR) systems. Soft computing based multimedia data mining techniques are employed to extract and optimize...
In this work, we present a semantic query optimization technique to improve the efficiency of the evaluation of a subset of SQL:1999 recursive queries. Using datalog notation, we c...
Practical description logic systems play an ever-growing role for knowledge representation and reasoning research even in distributed environments. In particular, the often-discus...