Sources of data uncertainty and imprecision are numerous. A way to handle this uncertainty is to associate probabilistic annotations to data. Many such probabilistic database mode...
The proliferation of spatial data on the Internet is beginning to allow a much wider access to data currently available in various Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In order t...
By providing an integrated and optimized support for user-defined aggregates (UDAs), data stream management systems (DSMS) can achieve superior power and generality while preservi...
Querying XML data is a well-explored topic with powerful databasestyle query languages such as XPath and XQuery set to become W3C standards. An equally compelling paradigm for que...
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Shashank ...
In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...