Abstract. We address a fundamental question concerning spatio-temporal database systems: “What are exactly spatio-temporal queries?” We define spatio-temporal queries to be co...
A business process model represents the basic building block for a workflow-enabled enterprise information system. Generally, a process model evolves through numerous changes durin...
The enforcement of semantic integrity constraints in data and knowledge bases constitutea a major performance bottleneck. Integrity constraint simplification methods aim at reduci...
We present a technique for refining the design of relational storage for XML data based on XML key propagation. Three algorithms are presented: one checks whether a given function...
Susan B. Davidson, Wenfei Fan, Carmem S. Hara, Jin...
Testing remains a major challenge for model transformation development. Test models that are used as test data for model transformations, are constrained by various sources of kno...