Supporting semantic queries in relational databases is essential to many advanced applications. Recently, with the increasing use of ontology in various applications, the need for...
Abstract. We address a fundamental question concerning spatio-temporal database systems: “What are exactly spatio-temporal queries?” We define spatio-temporal queries to be co...
Abstract. In this paper, we consider a multidatabase system which consists of media databases and traditional alphanumeric databases. The semantic relationships which may exist amo...
Jia-Ling Koh, Arbee L. P. Chen, Paul C. M. Chang, ...
The ROL system is a novel deductive object-oriented database system that has been implemented at the University of Regina. It provides a uniform rule-based declarative language fo...
Most search systems for querying large document collections---for example, web search engines---are based on well-understood information retrieval principles