We present an annotation management system for relational databases. In this system, every piece of data in a relation is assumed to have zero or more annotations associated with ...
Deepavali Bhagwat, Laura Chiticariu, Wang Chiew Ta...
—We outline SoftFacts, an ontology mediated top-k information retrieval system over relational databases. An ontology layer is used to define (in terms of a OWL-QL like Semantic...
Although data stored in XML is of increasing importance, most existing data repositories are still managed by relational database systems. In light of this, recent XML database re...
William M. Shui, Franky Lam, Damien K. Fisher, Ray...
With the increasing occurrence of temporal and spatial data in present-day database applications, the interval data type is adopted by more and more database systems. For an effic...
— Finding the k nearest neighbors (kNN) of a query point, or a set of query points (kNN-Join) are fundamental problems in many application domains. Many previous efforts to solve...