In the past, most early hands-on users of interactive software in organizations were individual contributors. Managers as early adopters is a new trend with significant implicatio...
It is known that the composition of schema mappings, each specified by source-to-target tgds (st-tgds), can be specified by a secondorder tgd (SO tgd). We consider the question of...
In GIS and spatial databases, cardinal directions are frequently used as selection and join criteria in query languages. However, most cardinal direction models are only able to h...
Content–based image retrieval in the medical domain is an extremely hot topic in medical imaging as it promises to help better managing the large amount of medical images being ...
My talk will be a survey of recent results about the quest for a logic capturing polynomial time. In a fundamental study of database query languages, Chandra and Harel [4] first ra...