Abstract— Developing a full-fledged cost-based XQuery optimizer is a fairly complex task. Nowadays, there is little knowledge concerning suitable cost formulae and optimization ...
Moving-objects databases need a spatio-temporal indexing scheme for moving objects to efficiently process queries over continuously changing locations of the objects. A simple exte...
In search of semantic richer and more flexible database modelling and database querying techniques, different approaches based on fuzzy set theory have been developed. Among the m...
With the rapidly growing use of the audio and multimedia information over the Internet, the technology for retrieving speech information using voice queries is becoming more and mo...
Though partially automated, developing schema mappings remains a complex and potentially error-prone task. In this paper, we present TRAMP (TRAnsformation Mapping Provenance), an ...