Currently the key problems of query optimization are extensibility imposed by object-relational technology, as well as query complexity caused by forthcoming applications, such as...
We present the architecture and design details of a logic database system that extends functionality in a number of ways. The system supports indefinite (non-Horn) facts in extens...
In applications like nancial trading, scheduling, manufacturing and process control, time based predicates in queries and rules are very important. There is also a need to dene ...
The retrieval process in image database systems is inherently different from the retrieval processin traditional (recordoriented)databasesystems.While thelatter canbe consideredan...
We investigate the expressiveness of existing XML keyword search semantics and propose Meaningful Connected Network (MCN) as a new semantics to capture meaningful relationships of ...
Junfeng Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Xiaofeng...