The rich dependency structure found in the columns of real-world relational databases can be exploited to great advantage, but can also cause query optimizers--which usually assum...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Paul B...
Semantic query optimization (SQO) has been proved to be quite useful in various applications (e.g., data integration, graphical query generators, caching, etc.) and has been extens...
TPR-tree is a practical index structure for moving object databases. Due to the uniform distribution assumption, TPR-tree’s bulk loading algorithm (TPR) is relatively inefficie...
In this paper we propose a novel spatial associative classifier method based on a multi-relational approach that takes spatial relations into account. Classification is driven by s...
This article reports the results of a scientometric assessment of the Southern Africa Development Community countries. The National Science Indicators database of Thomson- Reuters...