Uncertainty management for geometric data is currently an important problem for (extensible) databases in general and for spatial databases, image databases, and GIS in particular...
Maintaining a legacy database is a difficult task especially when system documentation is poor written or even missing. Database reverse engineering is an attempt to recover high-...
Lazy replication is a popular technique for improving the performance and availability of database systems. Although there are concurrency control techniques which guarantee seria...
The increasing use of temporal and spatial data in presentday relational systems necessitates an efficient support of joins on interval-valued attributes. Standard join algorithms...
In this paper we propose a new bottom-up query evaluation method for stratified deductive databases based on the Magic Set approach. As the Magic Sets rewriting may lead to unstra...