: Semi-structured data has become more and more attention-getting with the emergence of XML, and it has aroused much enthusiasm for integrating XML and SQL in database community. D...
Information in today’s enterprises commonly resides in a variety of heterogeneous data sources, including relational databases, web services, files, packaged applications, and c...
Abstract We present an analog and machine-independent algebraic characterization of elementarily computable functions over the real numbers in the sense of recursive analysis: we p...
The Digital Video Album (DVA) system described here integrates various cooperating subsystems to index and query video documents according to their semantic content and other meta...
Qiuying Zhang, Mohan S. Kankanhalli, Philippe Mulh...
This paper introduces the notions of mask and multiple format for setting up a progressive access to information in an Information System. Masks consist of more or less complete r...