Metric access methods (MAMs), such as the M-tree, are powerful index structures for supporting ty queries on metric spaces, which represent a common abstraction for those searchin...
Managing, searching and mining uncertain data has achieved much attention in the database community recently due to new sensor technologies and new ways of collecting data. There ...
A data warehouse DW can be seen as a set of materialized views de ned over remote base relations. When a query is posed, it is evaluated locally, using the materialized views, wi...
Users who are unfamiliar with database query languages can search XML data sets using keyword queries. Current approaches for supporting such queries are either for textcentric XM...
The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...