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Effective support for temporal applications by database systems represents an important technical objective that is difficult to achieve since it requires an integrated solution for several problems, including (i) expressive temporal representations and data models, (ii) powerful languages for temporal queries and snapshot queries, (iii) indexing, clustering and query optimization techniques for managing...
Image annotation is becoming increasingly important for clinical applications and medical research. Especially, collaborative image annotation can harness the collective intelligence from distributed users. There are several challenges to model medical image annotations: i) Medical image annotation includes not only textual annotation but also graphical annotation, which can consist of multiple areas...
There is much current interest in publishing and viewing databases as XML documents. The general benefits of this approach follow from the popularity of XML and the tool set available for visualizing and processing information encoded in this universal standard. In this paper, we explore the additional and unique benefits achieved by this approach on temporal database applications. We show that XML...
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