Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
We address the problem of providing integrated access to diverse and dynamic information sources. We explain how this problem di ers from the traditional database integration probl...
Databases supporting time dependent and continuously changing geometries, called moving objects databases, have been studied for about 15 years. The field has been flourishing and...
- Aligning specific sequences against other known sequences in a database is a central aspect of bioinformatics. New experimental data being added continuously to these databases n...
In this paper, we present the results that we have obtained by comparing and testing three well-known database middleware solutions. We have analyzed their features related to glo...