One hundred and five generic types of Pleosporales are described and illustrated. A brief
introduction and detailed history with short notes on morphology, molecular phylogeny as …

Uncertainty extensively exists in data and knowledge intensive applications, in which fuzzy
information processing plays a crucial role. Fuzzy sets have been extensively used to …

Fuzzy set theory has been extensively applied to extend various data models and resulted in
numerous contributions, mainly with respect to the popular relational model or to some …

Web services have emerged as an accessible technology with the standard'Extensible Mark
Up'(XML) language, which is known as' Web Services Description Language'WSDL. Web …

Modeling spatiotemporal data, in particular fuzzy and complex spatial objects representing
geographic entities and relations, is a topic of great importance in geographic information …

We consider the problem of creating a sample view of a database table. A sample view is an
indexed materialized view that permits efficient sampling from an arbitrary range query over …

Knowledge intensive applications require an intelligent environment, which can perform
deductions in response to user queries or events that occur inside or outside of the …

How to determine topological relationships is one of the most important operations on fuzzy
spatiotemporal data. The proposed strategies impose strict restrictions on structure and data …

Object Oriented Database (OOD) is one of the emerging technologies which replace
relational databases as relational databases are not designed to support multimedia data …

Exact information has become crucial part of the modern database applications and next
generation information systems to make them more human friendly. In order to deal with …