A range of database services are being offered on clusters of workstations today to meet the demanding needs of applications with voluminous datasets, high computational and I/O r...
XQuery, the standard query language for XML, is increasingly popular among computer scientists with a SQL background, since queries in XQuery and SQL require comparable skills to ...
We presented a novel procedure to extract ground road networks from airborne LiDAR data. First point clouds were separated into ground and non-ground parts, and ground roads were ...
Answering queries using views is a well-established technique in databases. In this context, two outstanding problems can be formulated. The first one consists in deciding whethe...
The quantum model of computation not only o ers entirely new ways to manipulate information, but also allows information processing tasks to be formulated in unconventional, genui...