View materialization is known to be a valuable technique for performance optimization in relational databases, and much work has been done addressing the problem of consistently m...
The volume of information in natural languages in electronic format is increasing exponentially. The demographics of users of information management systems are becoming increasin...
Systems for managing and querying semistructured-data sources often store data in proprietary object repositories or in a tagged-text format. We describe a technique that can use ...
AGENDA is a tool set for testing relational database applications. An earlier prototype was targeted to applications consisting of a single query and included components for popul...
For location-based services it is often essential to efficiently process proximity relations among mobile objects, such as to establish whether a group of friends or family member...