Business rules are a cornerstone of the consistency management of e-commerce data. The concurrency of transactions by multiple customers of e-commerce services (e.g., seat reserva...
In general, digital images can be classified into photographs and computer graphics. This taxonomy is very useful in many applications, such as web image search. However, there ar...
The Web has been rapidly "deepened" by myriad searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query interfaces. As an essential task toward integrating these m...
Sources of data uncertainty and imprecision are numerous. A way to handle this uncertainty is to associate probabilistic annotations to data. Many such probabilistic database mode...
Query processing techniques for XML data have focused mainly on tree-pattern queries (TPQs). However, the need for querying XML data sources whose structure is very complex or not...