The R*-tree, as a state-of-the-art spatial index, has already found its way into commercial systems like Oracle. In this paper, we aim at improving query performance of the R*tree...
Nowadays, many applications need data modeling facilities for the description of complex objects with spatial and/or temporal facilities. Responses to such requirements may be fou...
As the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is about to emerge as a new standard for databases, the problem of providing solid logical grounds for XML query languages arises. For the ...
We consider the problem of handling similarity queries in peer-to-peer databases. Given a query for a data object, we propose an indexing and searching mechanism which returns the...
Indrajit Bhattacharya, Srinivas R. Kashyap, Sriniv...
In this paper, we propose a method for maintaining a semantic cache of materialized XPath views. The cached views include queries that have been previously asked, and additional s...