Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...
The XML language have been becoming de-facto a standard for representation of heterogeneous data in the Internet. From database point of view, XML is a new approach to data modelli...
We present an approach to modelling Abadi–Cardelli-style object calculi as Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) designs. Here we provide a core object calculus with an operatio...
Traditionally, infinite databases were studied as a data model for queries that may contain function symbols (since functions may be expressed as infinite relations). Recently, th...
As more information sources become available in multimedia systems, the development of multimedia database management systems (MDBMSs) to efficiently model and search multimedia ...
Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Rangasami L. Kashya...