In response to the widespread use of the XML format for document representation and message exchange, major database vendors support XML in terms of persistence, querying and inde...
An important problem for many location-based applications is the continuous evaluation of proximity relations among moving objects. These relations express whether a given set of ...
Intel? Mash Maker is an interactive tool that tracks what the user is doing and tries to infer what information and visualizations they might find useful for their current task. M...
Robert Ennals, Eric A. Brewer, Minos N. Garofalaki...
There has recently been considerable research on physical design tuning algorithms. At the same time, there is only one published methodology to evaluate the quality of different,...
Date's popular critique of SQL's three-valued logic [4, 3] purports to demonstrate that SQL queries can produce erroneous results when nulls are present in the database....
Context-aware systems are pervading everyday life, therefore context modeling is becoming a relevant issue and an expanding research field. This survey has the goal to provide a c...
Cristiana Bolchini, Carlo Curino, Elisa Quintarell...
In this paper, we outline several ways in which the database community can contribute to the development of technology for computer games. We outline the architecture of different...
Walker M. White, Christoph Koch, Nitin Gupta 0003,...
ff the shelf abstractions for XML Schema Wim Martens University of Dortmund Frank Neven Hasselt University and transnational University of Limburg Thomas Schwentick University of ...