Numerous applications such as stock market or medical information systems require that both historical and current data be logically integrated into a temporal database. The under...
Peter Muth, Patrick E. O'Neil, Achim Pick, Gerhard...
Queries to data warehouses often involve hundreds of complex aggregations over large volumes of data, and so it is infeasible to compute these queries by scanning the data sources ...
In a mobile service scenario, users query a server for nearby points of interest but they may not want to disclose their locations to the service. Intuitively, location privacy may...
Man Lung Yiu, Christian S. Jensen, Xuegang Huang, ...
In applications of biometric databases the typical task is to identify individuals according to features which are not exactly known. Reasons for this inexactness are varying meas...
Supporting queries and modifications on XML documents is a challenging task, and several related approaches exist. When implementing query and modification languages efficientl...