In this paper, we present a preliminary study of geographic query words, which users' tend to re-use. The categories of the words demonstrate that geographically related word...
d abstract) Michael Benedikt Bell Labs Jan Van den Bussche Limburgs Universitair Centrum Christof L?oding Lehrstuhl Informatik VII RWTH Aachen Thomas Wilke Institut f?ur Informatik...
We propose a distributed data structure for maintaining spatial data sets on message-passing, distributed memory machines. The data structure is based on orthogonal bisection tree...
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...
The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems, including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and rewriting ...