Abstract. Past research work on modeling and managing temporal information has, so far, failed to elicit support in commercial database systems. The increasing popularity of XML oï...
For many data providers, the âcrown jewelsâ of their business are the data that they have organized. If someone could copy their entire database, it would be a competitive cata...
Magesh Jayapandian, Brian D. Noble, James W. Micke...
We propose a multi-dimensional language called nD-SQL with the following features: (i) nD-SQL supports queries that interoperate amongst multiple relational sources with heterogen...
We consider two-dimensional spatial databases deïŹned in terms of polynomial inequalities and investigate the expressibility of the topological connectivity query for these databa...
Kowalski and Sergotâs Event Calculus (EC) is a simple temporal formalism that, given a set of event occurrences, derives the maximal validity intervals (MVIs) over which propert...