Abstract. The XML has undoubtedly become a standard for data representation and manipulation. But most of XML documents are still created without the respective description of its ...
Ondrej Vosta, Irena Mlynkova, Jaroslav Pokorn&yacu...
A vast amount of information is being stored in scientific databases on the web. The dynamic nature of the scientific data, the cost of providing an up-to-date snapshot of the wh...
Fatih Altiparmak, Ali Saman Tosun, Hakan Ferhatosm...
Applications demanding multidimensional index structures for performing efficient similarity queries often involve a large amount of data. The conventional tuple-loading approach t...
Hyun-Jeong Seok, Gang Qian, Qiang Zhu, Alexander R...
Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated rather often. Small changes in the database configurations might impact a l...
George Papastefanatos, Fotini Anagnostou, Yannis V...
The wide adaptation of GPS and cellular technologies has created many applications that collect and maintain large repositories of data in the form of trajectories. Previous work ...
Marcos R. Vieira, Petko Bakalov, Vassilis J. Tsotr...
More and more data mining algorithms are applied to a large number of long time series issued by many distributed sensors. The consequence of the huge volume of data is that data ...
Raja Chiky, Laurent Decreusefond, Georges Hé...
The goal of data fusion is to combine several representations of one real world object into a single, consistent representation, e.g., in data integration. A very popular operator...
Compressed bitmap indexes are increasingly used for efficiently querying very large and complex databases. The Word Aligned Hybrid (WAH) bitmap compression scheme is commonly rec...
Since the visualization real estate puts stringent constraints on how much data can be presented to the users at once, table summarization is an essential tool in helping users qu...
Querying non-conventional data is recognized as a major issue in new environments and applications such as those occurring in pervasive computing. A key issue is the ability to qu...