Abstract. Query optimization is an important functionality of modern database systems and often based on estimating the selectivity of queries before actually executing them. Well-...
Abstract. The efficient management of interval sequences represents a core requirement for many temporal and spatial database applications. With the Relational Interval Tree (RI-tr...
Access limitations may occur when querying data sources over the web or heterogeneous data sources presented as relational tables: this happens, for instance, in Data Exchange and ...
The PolicyUpdater1 system is a fully-implemented access control system that provides policy evaluations as well as dynamic policy updates. These functions are achieved by the use o...
Time is one of the most difficult aspects to handle in real world applications such as database systems. Relational database management systems proposed by Codd offer very little ...