An effective query optimizer finds a query plan that exploits the characteristics of the source data. In data integration, little is known in advance about sources' propertie...
A neural network scheme is presented in this paper for adaptive video indexing and retrieval. First, a limited but characteristic amount of frames are extracted from each video sc...
Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Anastasios D. Doulamis, Stef...
Business Intelligence (BI) applications allow their users to query, understand, and analyze existing data within their organizations in order to acquire useful knowledge, thus mak...
Multi-dimensional spatial data are obtained when a number of data acquisition devices are deployed at different locations to measure a certain set of attributes of the study subje...
XML database systems emerge as a result of the acceptance of the XML data model. Recent works have followed the promising approach of building XML database management systems on un...