One of the most important types of query processing in spatial databases and geographic information systems is the spatial join, an operation that selects, from two relations, all...
We investigate a class of path constraints that is of interest in connection with both semistructured and structured data. In standard database systems, constraints are typically ...
Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
Given a set of Datalog rules, facts, and a query, answers to the query can be inferred bottom-up starting with the facts or top-down starting with the query. For efficiently answe...
The dQUOB system satis es client need for speci c information from high-volume data streams. The data streams we speak of are the ow of data existing during large-scale visualizat...