The ODMG proposal has helped to focus the work on object-oriented databases (OODBs) onto a common object model and query language. Nevertheless there are several shortcomings of t...
In this paper we propose a visual interface for the specification of predicates to be used in queries on spatio-temporal databases. The approach is based on a visual specification ...
UML is the de-facto standard language for Object-Oriented analysis and design of information systems. Persistent storage and extraction of data in such systems is supported by dat...
Dictionary-based approaches to query translation have been widely used in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) experiments. Using these approaches, translation has been not...
Semistructured data may be irregular and incomplete and does not necessarily conform to a fixed schema. As with structured data, it is often desirable to maintain a history of cha...
Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Serge Abiteboul, Jennifer W...