We introduce a new constraint domain, aggregation constraints, that is useful in database query languages, and in constraint logic programming languages that incorporate aggregate...
Kenneth A. Ross, Divesh Srivastava, Peter J. Stuck...
In this paper, we have developed a HiTi (Hierarchical MulTi) graph model for structuring large topographical road maps to the minimum cost route computation. The HiTi graph model p...
Current search engines can hardly cope adequately with fuzzy predicates defined by complex preferences. The biggest problem of search engines implemented with standard SQL is that...
All existing proposals for querying XML (e.g., XQuery) rely on a pattern-specification language that allows (1) path navigation and branching through the label structure of the XM...
Current Information Retrieval systems use inverted index structures for efficient query processing. Due to the extremely large size of many data sets, these index structures are u...