Due to the ubiquity and popularity of XML, users often are in the following situation: they want to query XML documents which contain potentially interesting information but they ...
Albrecht Schmidt 0002, Martin L. Kersten, Menzo Wi...
Existing SQL aggregate functions present important limitations to compute percentages. This article proposes two SQL aggregate functions to compute percentages addressing such lim...
Sensor networks are often used to sense the physical world and provide observations for various uses. In hostile environments, it is critical to control the network access to ensur...
A join-index is a data structure used for processing join queries in databases. Join-indices use precomputation techniques to speed up online query processing and are useful for da...
Nearest-neighbor queries are an important query type for commonly used feature databases. In many different application areas, e.g. sensor databases, location based services or fac...