As the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is about to emerge as a new standard for databases, the problem of providing solid logical grounds for XML query languages arises. For the ...
Abstract. In this paper we consider databases representing information about moving objects (e.g. vehicles), particularly their location. We address the problems of updating and qu...
Ouri Wolfson, Liqin Jiang, A. Prasad Sistla, Sam C...
Changing the way users interact with their data is the principal objective of the Listen, Communicate, Show (LCS) paradigm. LCS is a new paradigm being applied to Marine Corps tac...
: Horizontal fragments of a class in an object-oriented database system contain subsets of the class extent or instance objects. These fragments are created with a set of system in...
Abstract-- Our starting point is the multiplicative utility function which is extensively used in the theory of multicriteria decision making. Its associativity is shown and as its...