Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...
This proposal explores the promotion of existing relational databases to Semantic Web Endpoints. It presents the benefits of ontologybased read and write access to existing relati...
With the increasing amount of text data stored in relational databases, there is a demand for RDBMS to support keyword queries over text data. As a search result is often assemble...
— Finding the k nearest neighbors (kNN) of a query point, or a set of query points (kNN-Join) are fundamental problems in many application domains. Many previous efforts to solve...
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a vision of future Information Society, where people are surrounded by an electronic environment which is sensitive to their needs, personalized to th...