The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the characteristics that distinguish spatial databases systems from traditional ones. Hereto, we give an overview of some well-kno...
We present a data model for movies and movie databases. A movie is considered to be a 2-dimensional semialgebraic figure that can change in time. We give a number of computabilit...
Structured P2P overlays supporting standard database functionalities are a popular choice for building large-scale distributed data management systems. In such systems, estimating...
Marcel Karnstedt, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Michael Ha&szli...
An important issue arising from large scale data integration is how to efficiently select the top-K ranking answers from multiple sources while minimizing the transmission cost. T...
Classical retrieval models support content-oriented searching for documents using a set of words as data model. However, in hypertext and database applications we want to consider...