Discovery of association rules from large databases of item sets is an important data mining problem. Association rules are usually stored in relational databases for future use i...
Abstract. This work discusses the CROQUE approach to the maintenance problem for materialized views. In a CROQUE database, application-speci ed collections (type extents or classes...
Abstract. Good estimates of join result sizes are critical for query optimization in relational database management systems. We address the problem of incrementally obtaining accur...
In this paper, we consider various spatial relationships that are of general interest in pictorial database systems. We present a set of rules that allow us to deduce new relation...
Abstract. We discuss, compare and relate some old and some new models for incomplete and probabilistic databases. We characterize the expressive power of c-tables over infinite dom...