Background: Last years' mapping of diverse genomes has generated huge amounts of biological data which are currently dispersed through many databases. Integration of the info...
Francisco J. Lopez, Armando Blanco, Fernando Garci...
Data provenance is information that describes how a given data item was produced. The provenance includes source and intermediate data as well as the transformations involved in pr...
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated quite often. Research has extensively dealt with the problem of database evo...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Yannis V...
Abstract: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning can be greatly improved if metric information can be represented and reasoning can be performed on it; moreover, modelling vagueness and unc...