Almost all medium- and large-scale businesses rely on electronic workflow systems to manage their business processes. A key challenge is to enable the easy re-use and modification...
Frequently the behaviour of an information system is functionally correct, but it does not meet some quality criteria, such as completeness, consistency, and usability. One way to...
Digital visual libraries have currently available huge amounts of content in unstructured, nonindexed form. Since these collections keep growing fast, retrieving specific images i...
More and more integration systems use ontologies to solve the problem of semantic heterogeneities between autonomous databases. To automate the integration process, a number of the...
In this paper, a generalized multimedia database data model based on MPEG-7 named G3M is proposed and formally defined. Different from those XML Database Management System (DBMS) ...