Synchronization performance is a major problem with intermittently connected mobile databases. A server periodically generates update files for each client, which are downloaded ...
We investigate the problem of ranking answers to a database query when many tuples are returned. We adapt and apply principles of probabilistic models from Information Retrieval f...
Abstract. The interdisciplinary HERON project investigates the impact of multimedia applications from the humanities, in particular heraldry, on future database technology. We pres...
In this chapter, we summarize the research on querying inconsistent databases we have been conducting over the last five years. The formal framework we have used is based on two c...
Searching and managing large archives of visual data, such as images and video, is made hard by the lack of proper integration between the visual aspects of the problem (image pro...