Database queries, in particular, event-driven continuous queries, are useful for many pervasive computing applications, such as video surveillance. In order to enable these applic...
Increasingly, for extensibility and performance, specialpurpose application code is being integrated with database system code. Such application code has direct access to database...
Philip Bohannon, Rajeev Rastogi, S. Seshadri, Abra...
Data integration is the process that gives users access to multiple data sources though queries against a global schema. Semantic heterogeneity has been identified as the most imp...
Ladjel Bellatreche, Guy Pierra, Dung Nguyen Xuan, ...
Database Management Systems (DBMSs) that can be tailored to specific requirements offer the potential to improve reliability and maintainability and simultaneously the ability t...
Florian Irmert, Frank Lauterwald, Christoph P. Neu...
More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...