Location-based spatial queries (LBSQs) refer to spatial queries whose answers rely on the location of the inquirer. Efficient processing of LBSQs is of critical importance with the...
Existing SQL aggregate functions present important limitations to compute percentages. This article proposes two SQL aggregate functions to compute percentages addressing such lim...
We propose and evaluate two indexing schemes for improving the efficiency of data retrieval in high-dimensional databases that are incomplete. These schemes are novel in that the ...
Object-oriented and object-relational DBMS support setvalued attributes, which are a natural and concise way to model complex information. However, there has been limited research...
The problem of efficiently evaluating XPath and XQuery queries has become increasingly significant since more and more XML data is stored in its native form. We propose a novel op...