is at least ae powerful as SQL. Two well known relational query languages that have a sound theoretical foundation are relational algebra and relational calculus. As SQL is more cl...
Most models of utility elicitation in decision support and interactive optimization assume a predefined set of "catalog" features over which user preferences are express...
One of the most powerful features of SQL is the use of nested queries. Most research work on the optimization of nested queries focuses on aggregate subqueries. However, the solut...
An Event-Join combinestemporaljoin and outerjoin properties into a single operation. It is mostly used to group temporal attributes of an entity into a single relation. In this pa...
: We describe the architecture of a relational databasesystem that is extensible by user-defined data types and operations, including relation operations. The central concept is to...