There are three set operators defined in XQuery, namely union, intersect and except. They take node sequences as operands, in which each node is identified by its node-ID and tr...
Partitioning within a B-tree, based on an artificial leading key column and combined with online reorganization, can be exploited during external merge sort for accurate deep read...
— Rapidly evolving businesses generate massive amounts of time-stamped data sequences and defy a demand for massively multivariate time series analysis. For such data the predict...
In this paper we propose a new General Image DataBase (GIDB) model. The model establishes taxonomy based on the systematisation of existing approaches. The GIDB model is based on t...
—The import of the notion of institution in the design of MASs requires to develop formal and efficient methods for modeling the interaction between agents’ behaviour and norm...