Abstract—We present the query-by-description (QBD) component of “Kandem,” a time-aware music retrieval system. The QBD system we describe learns a relation between descriptiv...
In this paper, a State-Based Dynamic Transportation Network (SBDTN) model is presented, which can be used to describe the spatiotemporal aspect of temporally variable transportatio...
The successful development of any geographic information system project needs the careful design and implementation of spatial databases via conceptual and logical data-modeling. T...
A major bottleneck in implementing sampling as a primitive relational operation is the ine ciency ofsampling the output of a query. It is not even known whether it is possible to ...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Rajeev Motwani, Vivek R. Narasa...
We revisit the classical chase procedure, studying its properties as well as its applicability to standard database problems. We settle (in the negative) the open problem of decid...