Queries containing outer joins are common in data warehousing applications. Materialized outer-join views could greatly speed up many such queries but most database systems do not...
Abstract. We propose a mediator model for providing integrated and unified access to multiple taxonomy-based sources. Each source comprises a taxonomy and a database that indexes o...
Yannis Tzitzikas, Nicolas Spyratos, Panos Constant...
As XML-based messages have become common in many client-server protocols, there is a need to protect application servers from invalid or dangerous messages. This leads to the XML ...
Searching for similar objects in metric-space databases can be efficiently solved by using index data structures. A number of alternative sequential indexes have been proposed in...
At present, we have proceeded to extend SQL into a new language called dmFSQL (data mining Fuzzy Structured Query Language) which can be used to solve real problems of Data Mining...