As increasing amount of data is published in the form of XML, copyright protection of XML data is becoming an important requirement for many applications. While digital watermarki...
Xuan Zhou, HweeHwa Pang, Kian-Lee Tan, Dhruv Mangl...
Turi [20] introduced the important notion of a constrained atom: an atom with associated equality and disequality constraints on its arguments. A set of constrained atoms is a cons...
In this paper, we describe a framework for an object-oriented modeling of meta information and its use for the integration of heterogeneous databases with the goal of their intero...
Daniel A. Keim, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Andreas Mieths...
According to the logical model of Information Retrieval (IR), the task of IR can be described as the extraction, from a given document base, of those documents d that, given a que...
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Stracc...
An important direction in database research for non-standard applications (e.g. engineering or design applications) deals with adequate support for complex objects. Without doubt,...