Abstract. We present the Consistency Extractor System (ConsEx) that uses answer set programming to compute consistent answers to first-order queries posed to relational databases ...
Abstract: As the evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database management systems is a complex task and offers several degrees of freedom, we propose a visual explanation...
In this paper, a signature file method for indexing document database systems is presented. For this purpose, the concept of presentative word hierarchy is introduced, based on whi...
In this article we focus on the presentation of the inner structure of the database for the Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system containing house images. The part devoted t...
The paper describes recent progress in research on database system support for executing multimedia presentations. It proposes the general concept of Reactive Playout Management t...
Heiko Thimm, Wolfgang Klas, Jonathan Walpole, Calt...