Semantic integration is an active area of research in several disciplines, such as databases, information-integration, and ontologies. This paper provides a brief survey of the ap...
A key challenge for companies is to manage customer relationships as an asset. To create an effective toolkit for the analysis of customer relationships, a combination of relation...
Andreas Meier, Nicolas Werro, Martin Albrecht, Mil...
The MPEG-7 standard provides description mechanisms and taxonomy management for multimedia documents. There are several approaches to design a multimedia database system using MPE...
Abstract. The natural and surrogate key architectures are two competing approaches to specifying keys in relational databases. We analyze the performance of these approaches with r...
Slavica Aleksic, Milan Celikovic, Sebastian Link, ...
XKeyword provides efficient keyword proximity queries on large XML graph databases. A query is simply a list of keywords and does not require any schema or query language knowledg...