Turbulence is in the nature of business environments. Changes brought about because of different requirements such as social, political, technical and economic, exert pressures on ...
This paper discusses the construction principles of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs from the point of view of conceptual modeling. The paper starts with a summary of author’s previo...
With the increasing importance of the World Wide Web as an information source, there is a growing interest for integration of Web and database technology. Several Web query languag...
Abstract. We present a well-founded semantics for deductive objectoriented database (dood) languages by applying the alternating- xpoint characterization of the well-founded model ...
Abstract. This work discusses the CROQUE approach to the maintenance problem for materialized views. In a CROQUE database, application-speci ed collections (type extents or classes...
Abstract. In this paper, we consider a multidatabase system which consists of media databases and traditional alphanumeric databases. The semantic relationships which may exist amo...
Jia-Ling Koh, Arbee L. P. Chen, Paul C. M. Chang, ...
Abstract. In this paper, a new approach for retrieval from semistructured photographic collections is described. We have developed a retrieval model based on the Dempster-Shafer th...