Cloud enabled systems have become a crucial component to efficiently process and analyze massive amounts of data. One of the key data processing and analysis operations is the Sim...
In this paper, we present an extension of PHIL, a declarative language for filtering information from XML data. The proposed approach allows us to extract relevant data as well a...
Inverted index structures are the mainstay of modern text retrieval systems. They can be constructed quickly using off-line mergebased methods, and provide efficient support for ...
In order to guarantee efficient query processing together with industrial strength, spatial index structures have to be integrated into fully-fledged object-relational database ma...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
This paper describes a method to cope with denormalized relational schemas in a database reverse engineering process. We propose two main steps to irnprove the understanding of da...