Many applications in information retrieval, natural language processing, data mining, and related fields require a ranking of instances with respect to a specified criteria as op...
We consider spatial databases in the plane that can be defined by polynomial constraint formulas. Motivated by applications in geographic information systems, we investigate line...
Data warehouses and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) provide an analysis framework supporting the decision making process. In many application domains, complex analysis tasks ...
New applications from the areas of analytical data processing and data integration require powerful features to condense and reconcile available data. Object-relational and other d...
Background: An adequate and expressive ontological representation of biological organisms and their parts requires formal reasoning mechanisms for their relations of physical aggr...