Many applications today need to manage large data sets with uncertainties. In this paper we describe the foundations of managing data where the uncertainties are quantified as pro...
Physical structures, for example indexes and materialized views, can improve query execution performance by orders of magnitude. Hence, it is important to choose the right configu...
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio...
In relational database systems a combination of privileges and views is employed to limit a user’s access and to hide non-public data. The data privacy problem is to decide wheth...
In search of semantic richer and more flexible database modelling and database querying techniques, different approaches based on fuzzy set theory have been developed. Among the m...
Conventional image processing algorithms used to compare images are very timeconsuming, making them inappropriate for use in searching for an image in a huge collection of images ...
Caetano Traina Jr., Agma J. M. Traina, Rildo R. do...