Generally, applications employing Database Management Systems (DBMS) require that the integrity of the data stored in the database be preserved during normal operation as well as ...
A Natural Language Interface for Databases allows users of multimedia kiosks to formulate natural language questions. User questions are first translated into a logic language and ...
Users often can not easily express their queries. For example, in a multimedia image by content setting, the user might want photographs with sunsets; in current systems, like QBI...
Multidimensional discrete data (MDD), i.e., arrays of arbitrary size, dimension, and base type, are receiving growing attention among the database community. MDD occur in a variet...
Peter Baumann, Paula Furtado, Roland Ritsch, Norbe...
Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...