This paper presents an innovative partitionbased time join strategy for temporal databases where time is represented by time intervals. The proposed method maps time intervals to ...
Relational database systems have traditionally optimzed for I/O performance and organized records sequentially on disk pages using the N-ary Storage Model (NSM) (a.k.a., slotted p...
Anastassia Ailamaki, David J. DeWitt, Mark D. Hill...
Texture segmentation is an effortless process in scene analysis, yet its mechanisms have not been sufficiently understood. A common assumption in most current approaches is that t...
Aiming at explicit description of temporal meaning of causal relations generated by qualitative reasoning systems, this article proposes a causal time ontology which defines a se...
Incomplete relations are relations which contain null values, whose meaning is \value is at present unknown". Such relations give rise to two types of functional dependency (...