Evaluating a traditional database query against a data tuple returns a true on match and a false on mismatch. Unfortunately, there are many application scenarios where such an eva...
A key feature of relational database applications is managing plural relationships—one-to-many and many-to-many— between entities. However, since it is often infeasible to ado...
Relations in partitioned normal form are an important subclass of nested relations. This paper is concerned with the problem of restructuring relations in partitioned normal form ...
Topological relations between geographic regions are of interest in many applications. When the exact boundaries of regions are not available, such relations can be established by...
Steven Schockaert, Philip D. Smart, Alia I. Abdelm...