Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...
We consider a repository of animation models and motions that can be reused to generate new animation sequences. For instance, a user can retrieve an animation of a dog kicking it...
Akanksha Huang, Zhiyong Huang, B. Prabhakaran, Con...
We present a valid-time extension of SQL and investigate its efficient implementation on an Object-Relational database system. We propose an approach where temporal queries are ex...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...