Moving objects databases (MOD) have been receiving increasing attention from the database community in recent years, mainly due to the wide variety of applications that technology...
A tuple t1 of relation R subsumes tuple t2 of R, with respect to a query Q if for every database, tuple t1 derives all, and possibly more, answers to query Q than derived by tuple ...
Multidimensional models are at the core of data warehouse systems, since they allow decision makers to early define the relevant information and queries that are required to satis...
Independence analysis is the problem of determining whether an update affects the result of a query, e.g. a constraint or materialized view. We develop a new, modular framework fo...
Data sources for data integration often come with spurious schema definitions such as undefined foreign key constraints. Such metadata are important for querying the database and ...
Jana Bauckmann, Ulf Leser, Felix Naumann, Veroniqu...