A top-N selection query against a relation is to find the N tuples that satisfy the query condition the best but not necessarily completely. In this paper, we propose a new method ...
In decision support systems for Intensive Care Units (ICU), the data management subsystem plays an essential role since the data have a heterogeneous origin. The temporal dimension...
The need of using spatial vector data for web-based and mobile applications has been increasing rapidly. Vector spatial data is difficult to generalise (that is, to derive a suita...
Determiningthe convex hull ofa point set isa basic operation for many applications of pattern recognition, image processing, statistics, and data mining. Although the corresponding...
A real-time active database system (RTADBS) has to provide capabilities for timely trigger of timeconstrained transactions and at the same time to process them, concurrently with ...