Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
With the substantial change of declarative query languages from plain SQL to the so-called \object SQLs", in particular OQL, there has surprisingly been not much change in the...
In this paper we consider the problem of answering queries using views, with or without ontological constraints, which is important for data integration, query optimization, and d...
To effectively support today's global economy, database systems need to manage data in multiple languages simultaneously. While current database systems do support the storag...
Integrating geographical and multidimensional processing has been proposed in several researches in the database literature. One of the most important issues of this process is dat...
Joel da Silva, Ausberto S. Castro Vera, Anjolina G...