One of the problems associated with XML databases is the poor performance of XPath queries. Although this has attracted much attention by the research community, solutions are eith...
Security and privacy concerns as well as legal considerations force many companies to encrypt the sensitive data in databases. However, storing the data in an encrypted format enta...
In E-commerce processes, various rules and constraints regarding product specifications, pricing, terms and conditions are exchanged between vendors and buyers. Developing a forma...
Mizuho Iwaihara, Masayuki Kozawa, Jun Narazaki, Ya...
Query-by-tapping systems are content-based music retrieval systems that allow users to tap or clap in a microphone the rhythmic pattern of the melody requested. In this paper, a n...
Query by example of multimedia signals aims at automatic retrieval of media samples from a database, which are similar to a userprovided example. This paper proposes a method for ...