Abstract. Set-valued attributes are convenient to model complex objects occurring in the real world. Currently available database systems support the storage of set-valued attribut...
Mikolaj Morzy, Tadeusz Morzy, Alexandros Nanopoulo...
Users often need to optimize the selection of objects by appropriately weighting the importance of multiple object attributes. Such optimization problems appear often in operation...
Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas, Yannis Papakonstan...
Abstract. Real-life spatial objects are usually described by their geographic locations (e.g., longitude and latitude), and multiple quality attributes. Conventionally, spatial dat...
Recent research on skyline queries has attracted much interest in the database and data mining community. Given a database, an object belongs to the skyline if it cannot be domina...
Cuiping Li, Anthony K. H. Tung, Wen Jin, Martin Es...
—We present a new access method, called the path dictionary index (PDI) method, for supporting nested queries on object-oriented databases. PDI supports object traversal and asso...