Background: Biomedical and chemical databases are large and rapidly growing in size. Graphs naturally model such kinds of data. To fully exploit the wealth of information in these...
The parametric data model captures an object in terms of a single tuple. This feature eliminates unnecessary self-join operations to combine tuples scattered in a temporal relatio...
XML and its related technologies have now been in use for almost a decade. There has been considerable amount of effort both from research and industry focusing on XML, XQuery/XPa...
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...
Abstract. An object o of a database D is called a hot item, if there is a sufficiently large population of other objects in D that are similar to o. In other words, hot items are ...
Thomas Bernecker, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Ren...