If you have ever encountered a piece of highly domain-specific business software, you may have noticed that it was largely a graphical front-end to some relational database. You ...
Abstract Current, data-driven applications have become more dynamic in nature, with the need to respond to events generated from distributed sources or to react to information extr...
Moving objects (e.g., vehicles in road networks) continuously generate large amounts of spatio-temporal information in the form of data streams. Efficient management of such strea...
The supercomputer center, digital library, and archival storage communities have common persistent archival storage requirements. Each of these communities is building software in...
Schemas, and more generally metadata specifying structural and semantic constraints, are invaluable in data management. They facilitate conceptual design and enable checking of da...
Peter M. Fischer, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Ren&eacu...