Information integration systems have to cope with the different and limited query interfaces of the underlying information sources. First, the integration systems need description...
The analysis of time series is a central issue in economic research and many other scientific applications. However, the data management functionality for this field is not provid...
Werner Dreyer, Angelika Kotz Dittrich, Duri Schmid...
Full-text information retrieval systems have traditionally been designed for archival environments. They often provide little or no support for adding new documents to an existing...
Previous researchers have proposed generalizations of Horn clause logic to support negation and nondeterminism as two separate extensions. In this paper, we show that the stable m...
In this paper, we describe a new indexing technique, the time indez, for improving the performance of certain classes of temporal queries. The time index can be used to retrieve v...