The HiPAC project is investigating active, time-constrained databasemanagment. An active DBMS is one which automatically executes specified actions when speciifed conditions arise...
With the development of modern cities, 3-D spatial information systems (SIS) are increasingly required for spatial planning, communication systems and other applications. The geom...
While database management systems offer a comprehensive solution to data storage, they require deep knowledge of the schema, as well as the data manipulation language, in order to...
Today, neither transactional provisions, in general, nor concurrency control, in particular, of DBMS-based processing are tailored to the specific needs of large and collaborative...
There exist many interrelated information sources on the Internet that can be categorized into structured (database) and semistructured (documents). A key challenge is to integrat...