With the rise of XML, the database community has been challenged by semi-structured data processing. Since the data type behind XML is the tree, state-of-the-art RDBMSs have learn...
The need to access spatial data at multiple levels of detail is a fundamental requirement of many applications of geographical information, yet conventional spatial database access...
Advanced technical applications like routing systems or electrical network managementsystems introduce the need for complex manipulations of large size graphs. Efficiently support...
Molecular biology has a communicationproblem. There are manydatabases using their ownlabels and categories for storing data objects and someusing identical labels andcategories bu...
Two approaches for integrating images into the framework of a database management system are presented. The classi cation approach preprocesses all images and attaches a semantic ...