Topological relationships between spatial objects represent important knowledge that users of geographic information systems expect to retrieve from a spatial database. A di cult t...
Eliseo Clementini, Paolino Di Felice, Peter van Oo...
During the last decade, multidimensional databases have become common in the business and scientific worlds. Analysis places significant demands on the interfaces to these databas...
The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems, including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and rewriting ...
Tree pattern queries (TPQs) provide a natural and easy formalism to query tree-structured XML data, and the efficient processing of such queries has attracted a lot of attention. ...
Querying any information system requires the knowledge of some formal language, making it inaccessible to computer-na?ve potential users. We propose a new intuitive querying mecha...