The notion of time granularity comes into play in a variety of problems involving time representation and management in database applications, including temporal database design, t...
Topological invariants of spatial databases (i.e., finite structures that capture the topological properties of the database) are receiving increasing attention since they can act...
Serafino Cicerone, Daniele Frigioni, Paolino Di Fe...
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...
Ensuring the semantic and topological correctness of spatial data is an important requirement in geographical information systems and spatial database systems in order to preserve ...
Mark McKenney, Alejandro Pauly, Reasey Praing, Mar...
We study the novel problem of efficiently computing the update distance for a pair of relational databases. In analogy to the edit distance of strings, we define the update distan...