In many applications, users specify target values for certain attributes, without requiring exact matches to these values in return. Instead, the result to such queries is typical...
Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL require a sorted stream of tuples for efficient processing. Therefore, processing complex relational queries relies on efficient a...
Database outsourcing requires that a query server constructs a proof of result correctness, which can be verified by the client using the data owner's signature. Previous aut...
An important direction in database research for non-standard applications (e.g. engineering or design applications) deals with adequate support for complex objects. Without doubt,...
An Event-Join combinestemporaljoin and outerjoin properties into a single operation. It is mostly used to group temporal attributes of an entity into a single relation. In this pa...