Because performance is a crucial issue in database systems, data caching techniques have been studied in database research field, especially in client-server databases and distrib...
In this paper a visual approach to querying in large spatial databases is presented. A diagrammatic technique utilising a data flow metaphor is used to express different kinds of...
Andrew J. Morris, Alia I. Abdelmoty, Douglas Tudho...
We study extensions of first-order logic over the reals with different types of transitive-closure operators as query languages for constraint databases that can be described by...
We develop the scheme of indefinite constraint databases using first-order logic as our representation language. When this scheme is instantiated with temporal constraints, the res...
In E-commerce processes, various rules and constraints regarding product specifications, pricing, terms and conditions are exchanged between vendors and buyers. Developing a forma...
Mizuho Iwaihara, Masayuki Kozawa, Jun Narazaki, Ya...