Database system architectures are undergoing revolutionary changes. Most importantly, algorithms and data are being unified by integrating programming languages with the database ...
Abstract. As several mature implementations of data warehousing systems are fully operational, a crucial role in preserving their up-to-dateness is played by the ability to manage ...
Earthquake phenomena constitute a rich source of information over the years. Typically, the frequency of earthquakes worldwide is one every second. Collecting and querying seismic ...
Environmental monitoring is a promising application for sensor networks. Many scenarios produce geographically correlated readings, making them visually interesting and good targe...
Marx and de Rijke have shown that the navigational core of the w3c XML query language XPath is not first-order complete ? that is it cannot express every query definable in firsto...