Abstract. MPEG-7 is a promising standard for the description of multimedia content. A lot of applications based on MPEG-7 media descriptions have been set up. Therefore, an efficie...
Partial rollback mechanism has been widely supported by many database management systems (DBMSs). It allows a transaction to be rolled back partially, that is, only back to a cert...
The use of semantic knowledge in its various forms has become an important aspect in managing data in database and information systems. In the form of integrity constraints, it ha...
— Spurred by financial scandals and privacy concerns, governments worldwide have moved to ensure confidence in digital records by regulating their retention and deletion. These...
Soumyadeb Mitra, Marianne Winslett, Richard T. Sno...
Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...