Several recent trends have changed the usage and users of schemas beyond those of a database administrator’s tool for describing database contents. Distribution of computing pow...
Advances in hardware, storage, devices, connectivity, and web technology are changing the way applications are designed, deployed, and managed. Applications are increasingly becom...
Research in temporal database management has suggested that the Entity-Relationship (E-R) model lacks appropriate constructs for representing the dynamic nature of the real world....
Moving objects databases managing spatial objects with continuously changing position and extent over time have recently found large interest in the database community. Queries ab...
In the real world, lots of objects with changing position can be found. Some of them repeat the same movement several times, called periodic movements. Examples include airplanes,...