Recent research in domain-independent information extraction holds the promise of an automatically-constructed structured database derived from the Web. A query system based on th...
Selectivity estimation of queries is an important and wellstudied problem in relational database systems. In this paper, we examine selectivity estimation in the context of Geogra...
An algorithm is presented to answer window queries in a quadtree-based spatial database environment by retrieving the covering blocks in the underlying spatial database. It works ...
We study KDD (Knowledge Discovery in Databases) processes on OLAP (multidimensional and multilevel) data from a query point of view. Focusing on association rule mining, we consid...
A graphical formalized language is proposed for specifying systems of views over database schemas. The language is based on the notion of arrow (mapping) between data schemas and ...