XPath is the standard language for addressing parts of an XML document. We present a sound and complete decision procedure for containment of XPath queries. The considered XPath f...
Abstract—We propose a strategy to perform query processing on P2P similarity search systems based on peers and superpeers. We show that by approximating global but resumed inform...
Query processing in traditional information management systems has moved from an exact match model to more flexible paradigms allowing cooperative retrieval by aggregating the dat...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
In this paper we propose a new General Image DataBase (GIDB) model. The model establishes taxonomy based on the systematisation of existing approaches. The GIDB model is based on t...
Abstract. The paper discusses the design and prototype implementation of a QoS-aware multimedia database system. Recent research in multimedia databases has devoted little attentio...
Yi-Cheng Tu, Sunil Prabhakar, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid,...