Changes in the real world may require both the database population and the database schema to evolve. Particularly, this is the case in CAD/CAM and CASE database systems, in which...
Systems designed for efficient retrieval of conventional data can be very inefficient at retrieving documents. Documents have more complex structure than conventional data, and th...
Mining Frequent Itemsets is the core operation of many data mining algorithms. This operation however, is very data intensive and sometimes produces a prohibitively large output. I...
Today, we observe a wide use of geospatial databases that are implemented in many forms (e.g. transactional centralized systems, distributed databases, multidimensional datacubes)....
Although traditional databases and data warehouses have been exploited widely to manage persistent data, a large number of applications from sensor network need functional support...