This paper reports on the main phases of a research which aims at enhancing a maritime terminological database by means of a set of terms belonging to meteorology. The structure o...
The paper presents a schema repository, an original repository containing different kinds of database schemas. The repository is part of a multidisciplinary approach for schema ev...
A k-NN query finds the k nearest-neighbors of a given point from a point database. When it is sufficient to measure object distance using the Euclidian distance, the key to effici...
Ke Deng, Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen, Kai Xu 0003...
This paper presents two extensions for XQuery. The first extension allows the definition and processing of different kinds of windows over an input sequence; i.e., tumbling, slidi...
Irina Botan, Peter M. Fischer, Daniela Florescu, D...
XML parsing is generally known to have poor performance characteristics relative to transactional database processing. Yet, its potentially fatal impact on overall database perfor...