Most applications that access large data objects do so through file systems, but file systems provide an incomplete solution, as they maintain insufficient metadata and do not pro...
Most of work on partial information in databases asks which operations of standard languages, like relational algebra, can still be performed correctly in the presence of nulls. In...
A class of database programs exist which are required to operate over an infinite number of types; included in this class are object browsers and query tools. The types over which...
The classification of general-purpose photographs into textured and non-textured images is critical for developing accurate content-based image retrieval systems for large-scale i...
There is currently considerable interest in developing multimedia digital libraries. However, it has become clear that existing architectures for management systems do not support...
Elisa Bertino, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Mohand-Said Ha...