This paper uses a knowledge-based approach to querying heterogeneous spatial databases based on an ontology and conceptual and attribute similarities. The ontology, which may be in...
In this paper, two concepts from different research areas are addressed together, namely functional dependency (FD) and multidimensional association rule (MAR). FD is a class of i...
When implementing a multilevel security policy for Object-Oriented Databases (OODBs), several aspects have to be investigated. One of these aspect is the design of multilevel OODB...
A general technique for merging database schemas is developed that has a number of advantages over existing techniques, the most important of which is that schemas are placed in a...
Performance of distributed applications largely depends on the mapping of their components on the underlying architecture. On one mponent-based approaches provide an abstraction su...