The increasing power of modern computers steadily opens up new application domains for advanced data processing such as engineering and knowledge-based applications. To meet their...
We consider a set of views stating possibly conflicting facts. Negative facts in the views may come, e.g., from functional dependencies in the underlying database schema. We want ...
Image databases are nowadays widely exploited in a number of different contexts, ranging from history of art, through medicine, to education. Existing querying paradigms are based ...
Validation of multi-column schema matchings is essential for successful database integration. This task is especially difficult when the databases to be integrated contain little o...
Bing Tian Dai, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Ant...
Topological predicates, as derived from the 9-intersection model, have been widely recognized in GIS, spatial database systems, and many other geo-related disciplines. They are ba...
Mark McKenney, Alejandro Pauly, Reasey Praing, Mar...