Incomplete information arises naturally in numerous data management applications. Recently, several researchers have studied query processing in the context of incomplete informat...
Geographic Information Systems (GISs) have become an essential tool for efficient handling of our natural and artificial environment. The most important activities in a GIS are qu...
A "sparse" data set typically has hundreds or even thousands of attributes, but most objects have non-null values for only a small number of these attributes. A popular ...
Eric Chu, Jennifer L. Beckmann, Jeffrey F. Naughto...
Many scientific, financial, data mining and sensor network applications need to work with continuous, rather than discrete data e.g., temperature as a function of location, or sto...
As the XML has become a standard for data representation, it is inevitable to propose and implement techniques for efficient managing of XML data. A natural alternative is to expl...