In the context of relational as well as deductive databases, correct and efficient integrity checking is a crucial issue, as, without any guarantee of data consistency, the answers...
Decision support queries that scan large indexes can suffer significant degradation in I/O performance due to index fragmentation. DBAs rely on rules of thumb that use index size a...
—A major research subject in image databases is to support efficient and effective access to images based on their visual content. In color image databases, this requires to sup...
Alberto Del Bimbo, Mauro Mugnaini, Pietro Pala, F....
Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML-based language for the markup, storage, and exchange of geospatial data. It provides a rich geospatial vocabulary and allows flexible doc...
Let be a finite, ordered alphabet, and consider a string x = x1x2 . . . xn n . A secondary index for x answers alphabet range queries of the form: Given a range [al, ar] , retu...