Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags that add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid quer...
A genetic algorithm (GA) is an optimization algorithm that simulates the hereditary phenomenon of natural life. Although GA has been applied to image processing, it has not been s...
Schemas, and more generally metadata specifying structural and semantic constraints, are invaluable in data management. They facilitate conceptual design and enable checking of da...
Peter M. Fischer, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Ren&eacu...
It is commonly agreed that scheduling mechanisms in general purpose operating systems do not provide adequate support for modern interactive applications, notably multimedia appli...
If XML is to play the critical role of the lingua franca for Internet data interchange that many predict, it is necessary to start designing and adopting benchmarks allowing the c...