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...
Comparative expressions (CEs) such as "bigger than" and "more oranges than" are highly ambiguous, and their meaning is context dependent. Thus, they pose probl...
State-of-art image retrieval techniques have been developed to support high-level (semantics) querying and browsing of images. For certain user queries, it is also very important ...
The proliferation of mobile and pervasive computing devices has brought energy constraints into the limelight, together with performance considerations. Energy-conscious design is...
Ning An, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Narayanan Vijaykri...
Search operations in databases require some special support at the physical level. This is true for conventional databases as well as for spatial databases, where typical search o...