In this paper, we propose an original indexing by shape of image databases based on extended grid files. We first introduce a recently developed shape description method and tailo...
Carlo Combi, Gian Luca Foresti, Massimo Francesche...
In existing database systems there is a strong need for searching data according to many attributes. In commercial database platforms, the standard search over multiple attributes...
While extensive work has been done on evaluating queries over tuple-independent probabilistic databases, query evaluation over correlated data has received much less attention eve...
Background: Identifying relevant research in an ever-growing body of published literature is becoming increasingly difficult. Establishing domain-specific knowledge bases may be a...
This work may be seen as a further proof of the versatility of the relational database model. Here, we add XQuery to the catalog of languages which RDBMSs are able to "speak&...