There is a manifold of meanings we could associate with the term \evolution" in the database arena. This paper tries to categorize some of these into a unique framework, showi...
Abstract: While the problem of incompletedata in databases has been extensively studied, a relatively unexplored form of uncertainty in databases, called inaccurate data, demands d...
: Spatial data types or algebras for database systems should (i) be fully general (which means, closed under set operations, hence e.g. a region value can be a set of polygons with...
Although scientific data analysis increasingly requires accessandmanipulation of large quantitiesof data,current databasetechnology fails to meet the needsof scientific processing...
Object-oriented database systems (ooDBMSs) are supposed to offer at least the functionality available in commercial relational DBMSs of today. One important consequence of this is...