We present an algorithm for polyline (and polygon) similarity testing that is based on the double-cross formalism. To determine the degree of similarity between two polylines, the...
Increasingly, companies recognize that most of their important information does not exist in relational stores but in documents. For a long time, textual information has been rela...
A taxonomy-based source consists of a taxonomy and a database storing objects that are indexed in terms of the taxonomy. For this kind of sources, we describe a flexible interacti...
There are several consistency control algorithms for managing replicated files in the face of network partitioning due to site or communication link failures. In this paper, we co...
A multidatabase system (MDBS) is a facility that allows users access to data located in multiple autonomous database management systems (DBMSs). In such a system, globaltransaction...
Yuri Breitbart, Hector Garcia-Molina, Abraham Silb...