Within a database mobile environment, cached data on mobile clients can take the form of materialized views. In order to e ciently maintain such materialized views while taking in...
—A new multimodal biometric database designed and acquired within the framework of the European BioSecure Network of Excellence is presented. It is comprised of more than 600 ind...
We define a Mobile Database Community (MDBC) as a dynamic collection of autonomous mobile databases in which each database user can access databases in the community through a wir...
Mobile computing characteristics demand data management systems to support independent operation. However, the execution of updates in a mobile client usually need to be considere...
Query performance issues over semi-structured data have led to the emergence of materialised XML views as a means of restricting the data structure processed by a query. However p...