Structured Modeling for Video Databases
Video information is an important component of multimedia systems such as Digital Library, World-Wide Web (WWW), and Video-On-Demand (VOD)...
Applying Unsupervised Fuzzy C-Prototypes Clustering in Motion-Based Segmentation
Recent technology in digital video processing has moved to “content-based” storage and retrieval. There is a strong demand to...
The Rise, Fall and Return of Software Industry in Japan
The Software Industry in Japan grew extraordinarily only in the field of custom software, and fell after the collapse...
Conceptual Design and Development of Information Services
Due to the development of the internet and cable nets information services are going to be widely used. On...
An EER-Based Conceptual Model and Query Language for Time-Series Data
Temporal databases provide a complete history of all changes to a database and include the times when changes occurred....
Chrono: A Conceptual Design Framework for Temporal Entities
Database applications are frequently faced with the necessity of representing time varying information and, particularly in the management of...
Designing Well-Structured Websites: Lessons to Be Learned from Database Schema Methodology
In this paper we argue that many of the problems one may experience while visiting websites today may be...
The Temporal Set-Theory, Tropology and Their Application in Spatiotemporal Modelling
In this paper we briefly introduce the basics of a proposed temporal set theory together with the associated tropology....
Formalizing the Informational Content of Database User Interfaces
The work described in this paper addresses the problem of modelling the informational content of a graphical user interface...
TimeCube-Efficient Storage, Access and Analysis of Temporal (Historical) Data
This paper introduces TimeCube-a technology product specifically designed for the analysis of master type data or dimensional data (such...





