The widespread distribution and availability of smallscale sensors, actuators, and embedded processors is transforming the physical world into a computing platform. One such examp...
XQuery is a declarative language for querying and updating XML data sources. Interfacing XQuery to a host programming language is difficult because of the type system mismatch, an...
Donald D. Chamberlin, Michael J. Carey, Daniela Fl...
In a binary symmetric relationship, A is related to B if and only if B is related to A. Symmetric relationships between k participating entities can be represented as multisets of...
The integration of database and programming languages is made difficult by the different data models and type systems prevalent in each field. Functional-object query languages con...
Deductive Databases are coming of age with the emergence of efficient and easy to use systems that support queries, reasoning, and application development on databases through dec...