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...
Research in modeling and querying spatial data has primarily focused on traditional "crisp" spatial objects with exact location and spatial extent. More recent work, how...
— Finding the k nearest neighbors (kNN) of a query point, or a set of query points (kNN-Join) are fundamental problems in many application domains. Many previous efforts to solve...
Skyline queries help users make intelligent decisions over complex data, where different and often conflicting criteria are considered. Current skyline computation methods are rest...
Ping Wu, Caijie Zhang, Ying Feng, Ben Y. Zhao, Div...
An increasing percentage of the data needed by business applications is being generated in XML format. Storing the XML in its native format will facilitate new applications that e...
Alan Halverson, Vanja Josifovski, Guy M. Lohman, H...