Based on a systematic study of the semantics of temporal attributes of entities, this paper provides new guidelines for the design of temporal relational databases. The notions of ...
Abstract XML databases, providing structural querying support, are becoming more and more popular. As we know, XML data may change over time and providing an efficient support to q...
Time plays an important role in our everyday's life. For a lot of observations we make and actions we perform, temporal information is relevant. The importance of time is refl...
In order to obtain a suitable model of the universe of discourse of some information systems, it is important to allow the description of imprecise objects with temporal indetermi...
Ed Porto Bezerra, Ulrich Schiel, Bernardo Lula Jr.
Although it has been acknowledged for many years that querying and updating time-varying information using standard (i.e., non-temporal) SQL is a challenging task, the proposed te...