In this paper we discuss how metaphors for supporting user interaction with multimedia databases can be automatically generated. The work presented is a further step in the develo...
Maria Francesca Costabile, Donato Malerba, Matthia...
Query optimizers use base-table statistics to derive statistics on the sub-plans that are enumerated during optimization. In practice, traditional optimizers rely on a number of s...
– In the past few years considerable demand for user oriented multimedia information systems has developed. These systems must provide a rich set of functionality so that new, co...
Abstract-- We present COLR-Tree, an abstraction layer designed to support efficient spatio-temporal queries on live data gathered from a large collection of sensors. We use COLR-Tr...
An important class of queries is the LIKE predicate in SQL. In the absence of an index, LIKE queries are subject to performance degradation. The notion of indexing on substrings (...