The aim of this paper is to demonstrate Hermes, a robust framework capable of aiding a spatio-temporal database developer in modeling, constructing and querying a database with dyn...
Similarity search and data mining often rely on distance or similarity functions in order to provide meaningful results and semantically meaningful patterns. However, standard dist...
Tobias Emrich, Franz Graf, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Mat...
We examine schema mappings from a type-theoretic perspective and aim to facilitate and formalize the reuse of mappings. Starting with the mapping language of Clio, we present a ty...
Abstract. Although XML is the dominant standard for publishing and exchanging data for Internet-based business applications, data is typically stored in relational or object-relati...
In this paper we consider supernormal defaults [Poo88] with a strict partial order defining their priorities [Bre91]. We investigate their relation to minimal or preferential ent...