In this paper we present a storage method for sets of first order logic terms in a relational database using function symbols based indexing method of Discrimination trees. This is...
We give two sufficient conditions on XPath like languages for having first order expressivity, meaning that every first order definable set of paths in an ordered node-labeled t...
In this paper, we show that representation and reasoning techniques used in traditional knowledge engineering and the emerging Semantic Web can play an important role for heteroge...
In recent years, the significant growth of RDF data used in numerous applications has made its efficient and scalable manipulation an important issue. In this paper, we present RD...
In order to store, and retrieve images from large databases, we propose a framework, based on multiple description coding paradigm, that disseminates images over distributed serve...