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VLDB
1994
ACM
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Integrating a Structured-Text Retrieval System with an Object-Oriented Database System
We describe the integration of a structuredtext retrieval system (TextMachine) into an object-oriented database system (OpenODB). We use the external function capability of the da...
Tak W. Yan, Jurgen Annevelink
VLDB
1994
ACM
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Modelling and Querying Video Data
As video data is penetrating many information systems the need for database support for video data evolves. In this paper we present a generic data model that captures the structu...
Rune Hjelsvold, Roger Midtstraum
ADC
1994
Springer
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A Query Language for EER Schemas
We present a proposed query language for extended entity relationship schemas. The language improves on previous proposals by using only concepts explicitly in a given schema. It ...
Michael Lawley, Rodney W. Topor
SIGMOD
1996
ACM
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A Query Language for Multidimensional Arrays: Design, Implementation, and Optimization Techniques
While much recent research has focussed on extending databases beyond the traditional relational model, relatively little has been done to develop database tools for querying data...
Leonid Libkin, Rona Machlin, Limsoon Wong
ADBIS
1997
Springer
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A Graphical Yet Formalized Framework for Specifying View Systems
A graphical formalized language is proposed for specifying systems of views over database schemas. The language is based on the notion of arrow (mapping) between data schemas and ...
Zinovy Diskin, Boris Cadish
VLDB
1999
ACM
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Capturing and Querying Multiple Aspects of Semistructured Data
Motivated to a large extent by the substantial and growing prominence of the World-Wide Web and the potential benefits that may be obtained by applying database concepts and tech...
Curtis E. Dyreson, Michael H. Böhlen, Christi...
ICDT
1999
ACM
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A Framework for the Investigation of Aggregate Functions in Database Queries
Abstract. In this paper we present a new approach for studying aggregations in the context of database query languages. Starting from a broad de nition of aggregate function, we ad...
Luca Cabibbo, Riccardo Torlone
DBPL
1999
Springer
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Union Types for Semistructured Data
Semistructured databases are treated as dynamically typed: they come equipped with no independent schema or type system to constrain the data. Query languages that are designed fo...
Peter Buneman, Benjamin C. Pierce
PODS
1999
ACM
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Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data
Semistructured data occur in situations where information lacks a homogeneous structure and is incomplete. Yet, up to now the incompleteness of information has not been re ected b...
Yaron Kanza, Werner Nutt, Yehoshua Sagiv
COOPIS
1999
IEEE
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Looking at the Web through XML Glasses
The Web so far has been incredibly successful at delivering information to human users. So successful actually, that there is now an urgent need to go beyond a browsing human and ...
Arnaud Sahuguet, Fabien Azavant