Many data objects in the real world have attributes about location and time. Such spatiotemporal objects can be found in applications such Geographic Information Systems (GIS), env...
Modeling objects by probability density functions (pdf) is a new powerful method to represent complex objects in databases. By representing an object as a pdf, e.g. a Gaussian, it...
—As current software systems evolve continuously, both the application and its user interface (UI) have to be adapted. However, UI code is often scattered through and entangled w...
As the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is about to emerge as a new standard for databases, the problem of providing solid logical grounds for XML query languages arises. For the ...
In modern databases, complex objects like multimedia data, proteins or text objects can be modeled in a variety of representations and can be decomposed into multiple instances of ...
Stefan Brecheisen, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Sc...