Abstract XML databases, providing structural querying support, are becoming more and more popular. As we know, XML data may change over time and providing an efficient support to q...
Metaprogramming adds new expressive power to logic programming which can be advantageous to transfer to the field of deductive databases. We propose metaprogramming as a way to mo...
The efficient management of interval data represents a core requirement for many temporal and spatial database applications. With the Relational Interval Tree (RI-tree1 ), an effi...
Data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) are essential for decision support applications. Common OLAP operations include for example drill down, roll up, pivot an...
More and more applications rely heavily on large amounts of data in the distributed storages collected over time or produced by large scale scientific experiments or simulations. ...