This paper uses a knowledge-based approach to querying heterogeneous spatial databases based on an ontology and conceptual and attribute similarities. The ontology, which may be in...
Even if high-level query languages are used, query formulation may cause problems. This is notably so in case of large and complex application domains. Typical examples of these k...
Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, Henderik Alex Proper, T...
Abstract. In the paper we deal with the problem of modeling and querying information in schemaless databases of partially labeled objects (PLO-DB). Partially labeled objects are us...
Abstract. An important goal of security in information systems is confidentiality. A confidentiality policy specifies which users should be forbidden to acquire what kind of inform...
We introduce the new notion of XML Stream Attribute Grammars (XSAGs). XSAGs are the first scalable query language for XML streams (running strictly in linear time with bounded mem...