A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
Future database application systems will be designed as Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) like SAP’s NetWeaver instead of monolithic software systems such as SAP’s R/3. Th...
Stefan Seltzsam, Daniel Gmach, Stefan Krompass, Al...
Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) is widely used to represent, create, and display virtual reality objects and their environment. Some VRML applications require concurrent ...
{ Traditional computer applications have been designed to be run by one user at a time who does some work in a single medium, such as ASCII text, and very little regard has been gi...
Both, the number and the size of spatial databases, such as geographic or medical databases, are rapidly growing because of the large amount of data obtained from satellite images,...