Abstract: Peer data management systems (PDMS) are a highly dynamic, decentralized infrastructure for large-scale data integration. They consist of a dynamic set of autonomous peers...
Constraint-based database caching aims at correctly answering SQL query predicates from a local cache database by exploiting constraints that have previously been used in selectin...
We describe a new invariant-based data model for image databases under our approach for shape-based retrieval. The data model relies on contours description of the image shape, an...
Whenever a client frequently has to retrieve, to query and to locally transform large parts of a huge XML document that is stored on a remote web information server, data exchange...
When two or more databases are combined into a global one, integrity may be violated even when each database is consistent with its own local integrity constraints. Efficient metho...