The result of a distance join operation on two sets of objects R, S on a spatial network G is a set P of object pairs <p, q>, p R, q S such that the distance of an object ...
In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such that the amoun...
Normalization as a way of producing good database designs is a well-understood topic. However, the same problem of distinguishing well-designed databases from poorly designed ones...
Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...
The success of the World Wide Web is boosting the development of multimedia database systems and their integration into the internet. For the documents stored and exchanged in the...