There is an increasing need to integrate spatial index structures into commercial database management systems. In geographic information systems (GIS), huge amounts of information ...
Despite the overwhelming amounts of multimedia data recently generated and the significance of such data, very few people have systematically investigated multimedia data mining. ...
Though new technological trends and paradigms arise for developing complex software systems, systematic reuse continues to be an elusive goal. In this context, the adoption of Comm...
A business process model represents the basic building block for a workflow-enabled enterprise information system. Generally, a process model evolves through numerous changes durin...
The existence of a language expressing precisely the PTIME queries on arbitrary structures remains the central open problem in the theory of database query languages. As it turns o...