Top trees are a dynamic self-adjusting data structure that can be used by any tree algorithm. Actually, an arbitrary number of different tree algorithms can use a single structure....
Many areas of modern biology are concerned with the management, storage, visualization, comparison, and analysis of networks. For instance, networks are used to model signal trans...
As video data is penetrating many information systems the need for database support for video data evolves. In this paper we present a generic data model that captures the structu...
In today’s integrating information systems data fusion, i.e., the merging of multiple tuples about the same real-world object into a single tuple, is left to ETL tools and other ...
In the last few years, XML became a de-facto standard for the exchange of structured and semi-structured data. The database research community took this development into account b...