Time is one of the most difficult aspects to handle in real world applications such as database systems. Relational database management systems proposed by Codd offer very little ...
Most of work on partial information in databases asks which operations of standard languages, like relational algebra, can still be performed correctly in the presence of nulls. In...
Data mining applications are typically used in the decision making process. The Knowledge Discovery Process (KDD process for short) is a typical iterative process, in which not on...
Many areas of modern biology are concerned with the management, storage, visualization, comparison, and analysis of networks. For instance, networks are used to model signal trans...
—Past research on temporal databases has primarily focused on state-based representations and on relational query language extensions for such representations. This led to many d...